Example sentences of "to say [adv] [that] " in BNC.

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31 Are you going to say now that you 're not in support of Wheatley ?
32 That really encourages us to say now that prices will fall in nineteen ninety , but only marginally , perhaps by up to two or three per cent or so , but gradually there we 'll see a recovery now in nineteen ninety one , and that 's why we 're saying price rises by the end of ninety one of five per cent or more even .
33 The weaker way is to say simply that although there is a radical and obvious difference between the two hypotheses , it is not one which could make any difference to you , and so that you can be exempted from paying any attention to it .
34 It is not possible , however , to say simply that whenever one man intentionally causes harm to another that is a tort for , as we have also seen , the mere fact that my motive in performing an otherwise lawful act is to cause damage to another will not of itself make the act tortious .
35 The manuscript of Taskopruzade omits the as , in effect , does Sa'deddin , who generally follows Taskopruzade very closely , the result of which omission is to say simply that he became at the Darulhadis. el-Kefevi 's text of Taskopruzade clearly included the however , since he states unequivocally that Molla Arab became Hizir Bey 's muid at the Darulhadis ; and there is thus a good case that , despite the doubts introduced by the manuscript of Taskopruzade and Sa'deddin , Taskopruzade intended the lahu .
36 It seems almost needless to say nowadays that exposition repeats are faithfully observed .
37 For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views .
38 It will suffice to say here that while most people retain quite substantial and reliable memories of their own everyday lives in childhood and young adulthood , and also of the key turning-points in middle and later life , both fleeting and peripheral experience is much more rarely remembered .
39 Suffice to say here that its effects on film and television studies is most evident in the split between ‘ textualists ’ and ‘ contextualists ’ , the former emphasizing textual analysis and the position of the spectator , the latter more concerned with contextual inquiry and the role of the audience .
40 Suffice it to say here that the law in this area has been roundly condemned by the courts as being of ‘ inordinate complexity exceeding the worst excesses of a taxing statute ’ .
41 Suffice it to say here that a payment which is large in relation to salary is unlikely to be viewed as falling within the first category .
42 The history of the Friesian in the UK is given in the British section and the full story of the Holstein type is given in the American section : suffice it to say here that the Holstein originated from Dutch black-and-whites imported first of all by Dutch settlers in the New World during the second half of the nineteenth century .
43 I have to say here that I honestly do not know whether such experiences are examples of genuine recall or figments of the dreamer 's imagination .
44 Suffice it to say here that the centrepiece of that part of our discussion will be the idea that normality and psychosis are essentially continuous with each other and that healthy varieties in thinking style and the disposition to psychotic breakdown substantially overlap , indeed may be identical .
45 Suffice it to say here that , during enculturation , individuals acquire , first , an image of themselves as helpless and dependent in a hostile and malevolent world that it is largely beyond their ability to control and , second , a set of habits and expectations that lead them to seek and expect aid and comfort from others in times of distress .
46 Suffice it to say here that teachers today feel themselves to be pulled , both by external forces and by their own internal beliefs , in several incompatible directions .
47 Suffice it to say here that the word ‘ feudal ’ is used frequently and loosely in relation to Japan , and this use has been based either on the existence in Japan of certain features associated with European feudalism , such as a military code of honour , or on a specific interpretation of the relations of production in Japanese society before the late nineteenth century .
48 It is enough to say here that the opposition was successful and that Henry had to withdraw the levy , blaming Wolsey for its inception .
49 Right , next one is poison must get a move on cos we 're running a bit late so as we 're going to poisons later I 'll just go on to say here that there 's four ways poisons can get into the body .
50 Suffice it to say here that unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies rose substantially during this period ; the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s was replaced by general pessimism about future economic prospects in individual countries and in the world in general ; and all this after a period of unprecedented growth in public expenditure on education and health in all advanced industrial countries .
51 The significance of this fact will be dealt with later ; suffice it to say here that the effect of the listing arrived at by the formulators of the received tradition is to raise this perfectly acceptable and important generalization to the status of an unbroken rule , to smooth away all complications and to present a perfectly articulated chain of Muftis , all of whom remained in office until their deaths .
52 Suffice it to say here that the evidence to support the general proposition that higher taxes undermine the work ethic is largely inconclusive .
53 Suffice it to say here that all modern central heating boilers can provide domestic hot water via an indirect hot water cylinder or , with a combination boiler , instantaneously .
54 Suffice it to say here that one can define a quantity E(k) , where k is the magnitude of the wave number , such that
55 To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries .
56 One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter .
57 To say either that someone acts authoritatively or that someone is responsible for his actions may depend upon the possibility of ascribing mental states or capacities but neither is merely a shorthand way of ascribing them .
58 To say that it does not matter is to say either that all the masculine imagery is not inspired , is merely human in origin , or else that , though inspired , it is quite arbitrary and unessential .
59 Therefore one would have to say either that the power elite is a mere statistical phenomenon , a category , an aggregate of disparate individuals who happen to share some socially relevant resources , or that it is united by its objective interest .
60 The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle .
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