Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] say that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can honestly say that of the many hundreds of queries I have answered where fish were dead/unwell , probably less than 1% were suffering from disease caused by a pathogen ( causative organism ) , and about 5% from probable organic failure ( tumour , heart failure , and the like ) . |
| 2 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 3 | I can only say that on the evidence of Tesco 's cheapest , the rest will have a hard job keeping up . |
| 4 | I ca n't imagine I can only say that from my knowledge of Herefordshire as a Herefordian myself , I ca n't imagine for the life of me that there are seven thousand people locally who could remotely afford a thousand pounds per share . |
| 5 | I can only say that in dealing with derelict land , providing new jobs and building factories we dwarf anything that the Labour party ever contemplated . |
| 6 | I can only say that in your own experience you must know it 's not that easy to stop loving someone . |
| 7 | We can certainly say that in an important sense a record is finished — finite , objectified — in a way that oral performance is not ; indeed , in this sense it is , ironically , recordings rather than scores which represent an extreme form of reified abstraction ( with the resulting potential alienation of producer and consumer ) . |
| 8 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |