Example sentences of "[modal v] say [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ’ Summing up , ’ said Nilghard , ‘ I must say that the only place where I have seen correspondingly bad situations in Central Europe before is around the biggest airports in West Germany . ’ |
2 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
3 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
4 | Following our view of sadism , we should say that the destructive component had entrenched itself in the super-ego and turned against the ego . |
5 | I should say that the current ethos of most departments is relatively left-wing as far as the teaching staff are concerned , but that many of the students hold views considerably further to the right . |
6 | I think I , I should say that the current law of the church offers baptism to those who are communicant members or intending members of the church or who are adherents . |
7 | Under it , no journalist should use the expression ‘ terrorist ’ — the correct term is militant , freedom fighter or mujaheddin ; no journalist should say that the Panthic Committee , a confederation of terrorist outfits , is based in Pakistan . |
8 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
9 | Up to the point of overload and pressure , you might say that the inexorable logic of the Hay Fever Theory does hold . |
10 | ‘ You might say that the whole affair was a mistake , ’ he said . |
11 | We could say that the postmodern expression of the woman 's face is one that acknowledges itself as simulacrum and displays this without modesty . |
12 | Using the same strategy , we could say that the upper bound of pragmatics is provided by the borders of semantics , and the lower bound by sociolinguistics ( and perhaps psycholinguistics too ) . |
13 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
14 | I could say that the hon. Gentleman should ask one of his former hon. Friends because he has given a definition . |
15 | So you so really erm you 'd say that the actual image of the flats , in the press and the media in general , somewhat unfair . |
16 | I would say that the private sector would be decisive in the long term . |
17 | If , once the intervening test factor had been controlled for , the relationship was reduced to zero , we would say that the original effect had been fully interpreted . |
18 | And so I would say that the whole thing , the figures that I 'm proposing , er and the consequences for both Leeds and Bradford er would be in fact to maintain a balanced strategy for urban regeneration . |
19 | Relatives or friends will say that the dying person must have whatever they want . |
20 | He or she may say that the existing inspection chamber should be closed up and a new one installed outside the extension . |
21 | Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty . |
22 | While we can say that the average figure is likely to fall between 1 and 3 metres , since we do not know how many are 1.6 metres , 1.7 metres or 2 metres tall , we can not calculate the average . |
23 | If it is not , then we can say that the upper class enjoys a high degree of social closure relative to classes below . |
24 | There are some fairly simple rules ; we can say that the strong form is used in the following cases : |
25 | 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 . |
26 | A confidence limit is the interval within which we can say that the true value of the quantity we are estimating will lie with a specified probability . |
27 | A confidence limit is the interval within which we can say that the true value of the quantity we are estimating will lie with a specified probability . |
28 | In conclusion , we can say that the classical system depends crucially upon : ( a ) the dependence of investment and saving on the rate of interest ; ( b ) the upward and downward flexibility of wages , prices and interest rates ; ( c ) the existence of competitive forces in the economy . |
29 | 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 ) . |
30 | For only in this way can we take up the saying ‘ pray without ceasing ’ as being possible , if we can say that the whole life of the saint is one mighty , integrated prayer . |