Example sentences of "say in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You say in return , Diás muire duit . ’ |
| 2 | Given that framework , the glaring injustice to which the Whigs pointed was that the distribution of seats in Parliament should secure the ‘ representation of green mounds , of stone wall , even of a pig sty , while many of our most populous manufacturing towns remain unrepresented ’ ; that one propertied class should be overwhelmingly represented while another had so little say in Parliament . |
| 3 | It provides subordinates with greater job satisfaction by giving them more say in decision-making which affects their work . |
| 4 | Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator . |
| 5 | How is it you say in English — no strings attached ? ’ |
| 6 | The answer to Ross Ferguson 's ( Letters , 24 March , p 840 ) is as follows : Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire , Some say in ice . |
| 7 | As they say in boxing , a good big-'un will always beat a good little-'un . |
| 8 | And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions . |
| 9 | Barry contends the two-parent family remains the best structure for bringing up children , but that single-parent families and other minorities seem to get an inordinate say in society . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , give them more ownership and more say in management decisions ; give them stock options ; give the unions more clout — whatever it takes . ’ |
| 11 | Their method has been designed for recovering a GEM from water — not easy because any bacteria in it are much less abundant than , say in soil . |
| 12 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 13 | This is a system of horizontal and vertical panels , thus a primary , secondary or teacher training panel ( horizontal ) which co-ordinates and moderates activities for a particular educational level together with vertical panels , say in mathematics , science or music which are responsible for the overall and systematic development of a subject . |
| 14 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 15 | Since January 1990 all governing bodies of schools in Denmark have had complete control over school budgets , curricula , staff appointments and day-to-day management — the intention being to give teachers and parents more say in school management . |
| 16 | " I am not sure I could do as well as you say in politics . |
| 17 | They would then be required to hand over the proceeds , without any strings attached , to a fund in which , under the Tolba plan , ‘ all countries would have an equal say in resource allocation . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what they say in gangster films . ’ |
| 19 | Thus the inspector is deprived of any real say in planning and safety . |
| 20 | As we say in radio , half way towards the weekend . |
| 21 | The number of choices , say in box sizes or colours of material , can sometimes be limited by the teacher so that the youngest children are not discouraged from their natural urge to sort . |
| 22 | A chance-meeting , as we say in Middle-earth . ’ |
| 23 | " We say in French , senator , that the Annamese are the " rizicultivateurs " — the rice growers — and that the Chinese are the " usuricultivateurs " — the cultivators of usury , " he said with a laugh . |
| 24 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 25 | The last set of ideas which I want to discuss , which is not which are only partly related as a matter of fact to the erm ideas of the punctuationists , are the ideas , which , as a matter of fact my colleagues here Brian Goodwin and Gerry Webster have been particularly clear and eloquent advocates , which say in effect that if you really want to understand evolution , merely thinking about the adaptation of organisms to some kind of environment is not really an adequate way of thinking about it , because when you look at organisms , look at vertebrates for example , you 'll find an astonishing range of kinds of ways of life . |
| 26 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 27 | if you say in Playback there is an added night performance |
| 28 | In San Cosme , as elsewhere in Mexico , union leaders have an important say in job placements in factories and can exert influence on behalf of their members at regional and national levels . |
| 29 | This raised three different problems ( or opportunities , as we say in marketing ) : overall , the quality of the stores was higher than expected by people used to Allied Carpets ' promotional style ; people were not fully aware of the extent of the offer — they did not associate Allied with furniture and beds ; and , in a market where independent retailers are still the dominant factor , they had low expectations of Allied 's standards of personal service . |
| 30 | Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies . |