Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |
| 2 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 3 | er and Chairman I must say that as to request from County Council at Molds and County Council at Harson , from the Ipswich Borough Council for their copies of the plans which you have not yet received , I have to decline the protocol it takes that this committee is the first to see the county surveyor 's proposals , and I ca n't give any other elected member within Suffolk prior treatment over that to be quite honest . |
| 4 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed as a job description I 'd say that ‘ member of the Royal Family ’ could sound rather appealing . |
| 6 | To be fair to the manufacturers I can say that most of the better filter units available have very comprehensive instructions , either on the packaging , or contained inside the box as a leaflet . |
| 7 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 8 | In essence we can say that the sentenced prison population is a function of the number of people received into prison and the average length of sentence that they actually serve ( sometimes known as effective sentence length : Fitzmaurice and Pease , 1992 : 575 ) . |
| 9 | DURING the housing boom they used to say that the only contact an architect had with the design of many high-volume , speculative developments was to lay out the site so that the maximum number of little boxes could be squeezed in . |
| 10 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 11 | And to that degree I would say that we 're accountable through those particular members . |
| 12 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |
| 13 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 14 | For example , a hearer might derive a range of implicatures about athletes and races , in which case you could say that the use of sprint conjures up an impression of athleticism not suggested by run . |
| 15 | Of course you could say that we do not need all the animals anyway , but at the moment we have got them , so there is a conflict here . |
| 16 | At the end of the war I could say that I , too , was prepared to forgo a nebulous eternity in exchange for the short span we had had together . |
| 17 | But at the moment I would say that if there are a hundred people receiving the programme across all of Europe that 'd be pretty impressive . |
| 18 | At this point I must say that I have n't yet found a carp that did n't eat Tropicanas . |
| 19 | In conclusion I would say that the book itself is good and the style is brilliant , as you are able to see things so well through the eyes of Finn . |
| 20 | erm they have not in the past proved themselves to be the most capable o of people to er to support these things so in conclusion I 'd say that we must put this as part of a shopping list , the shopping list is on there er it is something to bring London and the South East of England which includes Hertfordshire and to make it an economic and viable area and look at the evidence of the other cities and I hope that er all of you will support the motion . |
| 21 | That 's about the only people that I know of and then , cos later years I would say that they used to cart so much into the erm , into the other farms round here . |
| 22 | There are Christians who would say that one can meditate a lifetime on them . |
| 23 | But , for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift . |
| 24 | On this basis we can say that the vast majority of families with an unskilled manual worker as sole earner were at best only marginally above that line . |
| 25 | In conclusion one may say that the magnate class , and particularly the military captains , were the main beneficiaries , but that the gains of war were often fortuitous and certainly unevenly spread . |
| 26 | But for our purposes we can say that corporatism involves cooperative arrangements between government and non-governmental groups or institutions under which the latter , either in return for some benefit or in order to avoid some disadvantage , agree to act in a way which will further government policy . |
| 27 | The concept of discretion is a complex one , but for our purposes we can say that the essence of a discretion is choice . |
| 28 | In conclusion we could say that , as finding the correct thermal niche is the hallmark of natural selection , the likely midway position of dinosaurs seems a logical outcome . |
| 29 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 30 | As a rule of thumb , with samples of around 1000 individuals we may say that , if the difference in proportions is greater than 0.1 , then an interaction is present , and it is unwise to average the effects . |