Example sentences of "say [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 2 | The gang fled , but police say although the man was brave to tackle them , they ca n't encourage others to do the same . |
| 3 | Most experts say that the happiest — and longest — relationships are based on close friendship and shared interests , not just strong feelings . |
| 4 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 5 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 6 | The behaviourist 's second line of defence is to distinguish between knowing and what is known , and say that the behavioural reduction applies only to the former . |
| 7 | The is no doubt that polished tools look better , but some say that the extra expense is unnecessary . |
| 8 | There have been murmurs of discontent among manufacturers considering diversifying away from Macao , but businessmen say that the only impact so far has been a shift of orders from China to Macao . |
| 9 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 10 | Critics say that the real battle against drugs can only be won by international co-ordination and the development of a long-term growth strategy . |
| 11 | Panamanian opposition leaders say that the coup attempt has shown how General Noriega 's own supporters are abandoning him . |
| 12 | The traders say that the main species they import — galathus elwesii — is not endangered . |
| 13 | They say that the police could stop the violence overnight if the Special Patrol Group was assigned to patrol the area , or if the Home Office made it sufficiently clear that this kind of activity must stop . |
| 14 | Other rumours even say that the Chancellor will impose higher purchase taxes or increased VAT on large cars , as is the case in some European countries . |
| 15 | We call that freedom , the freedom to do good — or evil — and we , the Church , say that the choice between good and evil is an individual one . |
| 16 | The auditors say that the Treasury originally gave the go- ahead in 1982 , authorising £1.95 million on research . |
| 17 | A staff meeting in East Berlin 's Defence Ministry , attended by the Defence Minister , Admiral Theodor Hoffmann , heard Captain Uwe-Jens Karl say that the political scandals had ‘ also discredited the whole army ’ . |
| 18 | Nicaraguan sources here say that the summit meeting is likely to witness an angry denunciation by the Salvadorean president , Mr Alfredo Cristiani , of the Sandinista arms supplies to the FMLN rebels , especially last month 's alleged deliveries by aircraft of Sam-7 anti-aircraft missiles . |
| 19 | Eye-witnesses say that the demonstrators marched on the local government offices and occupied them . |
| 20 | Some accounts say that the fire engines were attacked , overturned , and set alight . |
| 21 | Hull , who had Webbe watched in Bridgend 's game with Neath a week last Saturday , say that the two players involved were ‘ very keen ’ to turn professional . |
| 22 | Some say that The Mercy Seat is the best thing Cave has done for five years , since Mutiny in Heaven . |
| 23 | SURPRISING : there are people in New York who say that the city is too rude . |
| 24 | The Geneva Convention has clarified them ; but the Iraqis say that the allies are themselves committing war crimes by attacking civilians . |
| 25 | I say that the alliance is temporary , because exchange of genes between plasmids is common . |
| 26 | ‘ We say that the Slovaks are cousins to the poles and the Ukrainians whereas the Czechs are more like the Germans . |
| 27 | As the pound slumped it fell below its ‘ effective ’ floor set by its relationship with the peseta but dealers say that the peseta constraint is no longer as important as it was once thought to be . |
| 28 | They say that the water may have to be treated with chlorine , blasted with ultra-violet light , pasteurised and given other treatments before it can be re-used . |
| 29 | Others say that the outcome of the case confirms that federal prisoner No 41586 was bluffing . |
| 30 | That is what I mean when I say that the problems of crofting , and other rural problems , are in an odd , but very real sense , a national resource . |