Example sentences of "[modal v] say [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Which I 'd say is less useful in fact than the little ones . |
| 32 | Yeah , well what you do is they give you a sheet of paper and th , you write down who was involved in the conversation , so all I 'd say is , is erm Mum |
| 33 | The other thing I 'd say is that the budget settlement that we 've got introduces a further hundred thousand of investment in new technology , and this is part of our push to making us more efficient in the way we manage our budgets and all the rest of it . |
| 34 | Oh yes , well I dare say is n't finished ! |
| 35 | All one need say is that this is how things often are . |
| 36 | ‘ One thing I would say is that we get inundated with rent-a-quote demands . |
| 37 | ‘ All I would say is that he deserves the chance to keep on going and defend his title . ’ |
| 38 | The other thing I would say is keep a reserve behind your front line . |
| 39 | What , what , what I would say is this , there always , there always talking about anti social behaviour around the town and as I say if people have n't got the necessary coin , it could lead to anti social behaviour , it 's as simple as that . |
| 40 | The only thing I would say is never pay for anything in advance , particularly construction . |
| 41 | But what I would say is that we should perhaps er er you know identify areas where we think we might erm where discussion would be fruitful and then we could marshall the information if we , if we wished to . |
| 42 | All I would say is that the principle of fairness , though concerned exclusively with the use of evidence at trial , is not susceptible to categorisation or classification and is wide enough in some circumstances to embrace the way in which , after the crime , evidence has been obtained from the accused . |
| 43 | The other thing I would say is that the corporation were not at liberty to disregard their undertaking . |
| 44 | The only thing I would say is , is that we 're looking to er start in the next quarter various plans for maintenance routines one of which will be o , actually on furniture . |
| 45 | What I would say is that the power of the local planning authority to resist development on these sites would be materially reduced were the initial negative presumption against development afforded by greenbelt status removed from them . |
| 46 | Yes because in practice what the will would say is that the spouse would have to survive for twenty eight days , th the usual phraseology . |
| 47 | What I what I what I would say is something I found in in BES has happened while I 've been here much less now than than earlier on , is engineers robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 48 | The only other thing I would say is erm |
| 49 | The only thing we would say is that we must have a clear vision of our formal and stylistic intentions before we begin . |
| 50 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |
| 51 | I mean the narrowest part of the river I would say is er where Hall Bridge is , that 's the narrowest part . |
| 52 | The other thing I would say is this that the management , whilst they very rarely agree with what Eric has got to say I 've never met a member of management at any level , at any level that does n't respect what he 's got to say and that 's a tremendous , er psychological blow before they even get round the table , because he 's completely disarming and his record in terms as vic er for , of victories , for individual members and groups of mem er , members , er , is legendary and I think apart from his ability it 's the respect in which he 's held by , by everybody , by everybody . |
| 53 | What they would say is that we have to , perhaps we do have to leave things to the individual , but we should leave as little possible to individuals , as little as practically possible so that we should the people involved in making all the important decisions , particularly the carrying out of them that we have to leave to particular appointed individuals . |
| 54 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 55 | Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement . |
| 56 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 57 | I think that er , er , what I would say is that er , we would follow the markets erm , where they lead us . |
| 58 | Well , all I would say is that youca nt really be too critical of players in what is only their second match . |
| 59 | we what I would say is |
| 60 | All I would say is that , when the plan reaches modification stage , the Department will be looking at that the situation very closely indeed , and at that stage I would fully expect that even though I wo n't be here to do it myself , as I shall have retired by that stage , |