Example sentences of "[be] say [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the objective of a democratic legislature is to inform the public about issues , to let them know what pressure groups are saying and to allow the civil service to assess public reaction before rather than after the government is committed to a line of action , then pressure groups should address Parliament . |
| 2 | I hope that , whatever the outcome , Peter and his colleagues will have ceased to regard the IoT as an ‘ enemy ’ , and recognise the merit in what we have been saying and abandon the separate examination proposal . |
| 3 | This is true , but on the other hand it must be said that to give the wrong answer to a problem is not necessarily to miss the point of it . |
| 4 | Ask yourself what needs to be said and relay the gist of this to your spokesman , who can then put it into his or her own words . |
| 5 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |