Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [that] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 It is rather that " social anthropologists have learnt from experience that the totality of the local community is usually treated by its members as an expanded domestic household ; though equally well one might say that a domestic household is treated as a fined down version of the total community .
9 Simplifying somewhat , we might say that a structural approach to language teaching lays emphasis on systemic knowledge and makes the assumption that once this is acquired the learners will discover for themselves how it is put to use in communication .
10 Thinking the same way about syntax , we can say that a given set of rules ( a syntactic analysis ) is a function whose domain is the set of possible combinations of morphemes in the language L , and whose range has just two elements , denoting the grammatical and the ungrammatical in L ; or thinking about semantics , we might say that a semantic analysis of L has as its domain the set of well-formed sentences of L , and as its range the set of semantic representations or propositions representing the meaning of each of those sentences .
11 Her face is comely enough to take short hair , though perfectionists might say that the grey-green eyes are a little close-set , and the nose and chin are a centimetre longer than Robyn herself would have wished .
12 One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other .
13 Up to the point of overload and pressure , you might say that the inexorable logic of the Hay Fever Theory does hold .
14 ‘ You might say that the whole affair was a mistake , ’ he said .
15 We could say that the postmodern expression of the woman 's face is one that acknowledges itself as simulacrum and displays this without modesty .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 I could say that the hon. Gentleman should ask one of his former hon. Friends because he has given a definition .
19 To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis .
20 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 .
21 Well I think , Bill , if I was to try and sum it up I 'd say that the Social Services settlement was the best of a bad job .
22 The Finance Houses Association , representing the biggest finance houses , told us that many of their members would say that a personal interview in an applicant 's own home , allowing the personal judgment of an experienced assessor , and an element of ‘ gut-feeling ’ would be the ideal .
23 ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention .
24 I would say that the private sector would be decisive in the long term .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 If the combination is normal , we shall say that the lexical units involved are philonyms ; if the combination is pleonastic , we shall speak of head and tautonym ; if dissonance results , the lexical units will be labelled xenonyms .
28 We will say that a feasible solution is efficient if it is dominated by no other feasible solution .
29 Relatives or friends will say that the dying person must have whatever they want .
30 If we traverse the cycle in the direction J to k to I to J , then some edges of the cycle will have their arrows directed in this direction and we will say that the corresponding variables are forward variables whereas the remaining edges will be directed against the direction of the cycle and we will describe the corresponding variables as reverse variables .
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