Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] [adv] say " in BNC.

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1 A time will come when you will know that she is no longer saying to herself , ‘ If I ca n't have him , I do n't want anything ’ .
2 I do n't mind dropping in and saying , hello , we we are getting to a size where , er I think it 's speci slightly impractical , I mean er I can see there was so might be useful to know there 's a new member of staff here , it 's either then say there was somebody wandering around , who are you and what are you doing here .
3 Well I mean , it 's not necessarily to say that you know , that they
4 It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better .
5 It 's not enough to say ‘ I 'm sorry ’ . ’
6 It 's not enough to say do n't have sex .
7 Yes I 'm getting there , I know I know I know myself I 'm getting there , it 's just Like say , it 's just taking a bloody long while .
8 For some it 's just enough to say ’ I was there . ’
9 And it 's it 's almost like saying that the , if you take H R T er , this is in our sort of survey that you will in fact erm , reduce the instance of heart disease but ma , might you , in in fact , increase the risks of breast cancer .
10 It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention .
11 Economists say it 's too soon to say if the shopping boom marks the beginning of the end of the retail recession .
12 I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property .
13 It 's all right saying , it 's all right for like the mothers of the animals would n't like if their children were killed and your children were killed you would n't like that .
14 It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience .
15 It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence .
16 It is not enough to say merely ‘ I accuse . ’
17 ( It is not enough to say that you learnt martyrhood from your parents .
18 It is not enough to say the words ‘ I suppose I could murder someone ’ ; we must own it within our hearts .
19 The third talk brought the comment : ‘ It is not enough to say to the hungry , ‘ Be fed ’ , or to the naked , ‘ Be clothed ’ . ’
20 It is not enough to say , ‘ Divorce if your marriage does n't suit you , ’ for marriage is a one-flesh relationship .
21 It is not enough to say that the visual system must contain edge detectors , one also has to say how edge information could be reconstructed from the retinal image and how far the units in the CNS that appear to respond to edges do , in fact , operate according to these computational principles .
22 It is not enough to say , as successive reports from the IMF or the World Bank have tended to do , that it all depends on governments and that it is up to them how the economy prospers .
23 It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways .
24 It is not enough to say that most asylum applicants are deserving because they come from ’ unstable ’ or ’ strife-torn ’ countries .
25 It clearly might apply to the poet 's relationship , but it is not specifically said to .
26 Small shareholders ' champion Gideon Fiegel — the man who led the revolt against Sugar — has won a battle , but it is too soon to say whether or not he has won the war .
27 It is too soon to say when a decision whether to prosecute will be taken .
28 It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history .
29 However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) .
30 They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment .
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