Example sentences of "say on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 2 | Michael 's now planning to visit the Amazon himself , instead of having to depend he says on other people 's accounts . |
| 3 | It has been said on high authority that |
| 4 | The head of Israeli military intelligence , Gen. Uri Saguy , said on Israeli radio that Bseisou had been a member of the Black September group which had killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics of 1972 [ see pp. 25493-96 ] . |
| 5 | Rezzag Bara , chairman of a commission of inquiry into the assassination in June of President Mohammed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 , said on Algerian television on Dec. 10 that the killing had been part of a wider conspiracy serving the interests of radical Moslem movements . |
| 6 | For his part , do Nascimento said on Angolan radio the same day that acceptance of a ceasefire was linked to the setting of a date for elections . |
| 7 | A. J. Swines , it said on high brown doors that were standing open so that lorries could pass in and out . |
| 8 | Frost , one might think , righted the balance a little when he said on British television some years ago that diplomacy was : ‘ The art of letting somebody else have your way . ’ |
| 9 | This sentence contains not simply a report of something said ; but of something said on repeated occasions at times later than the ‘ moment ’ which is being described . |
| 10 | ‘ The problem was not with UEFA 's complicated regulations , ’ he said on German radio . |
| 11 | Rummenigge said on German television on Wednesday night that he considered Ferguson to be a better player than Ally McCoist but wondered if so much money could be spent on such a relatively inexperienced player . |
| 12 | All would be revealed , Mr Gorbachev said on national television , for the Soviet people had a right to know . |
| 13 | God and the truth are on our side , ’ Nukri Kakilashvili , a member of the Georgian soccer federation 's directorate , said on national television . |
| 14 | Nukri Kakilashvili , a member of the Georgian soccer federation , said on national television : ‘ We received a letter from UEFA instructing us to cover expenses for referees , so on the eve of the match a number of officials presented four envelopes to the referee and linesmen . |
| 15 | Fairclough ( as Ive said on numerous occasions ) is excellent when given a job to do … as he is in this formation . |
| 16 | The Secretary-General of the Arab League , Esmat Abdel Meguid said in Cairo only hours before this decision that the Arab nations " without exception " would like to see an easing of the suffering of the Iraqi people , and on May 28 the Yemeni Minister of Housing and Urban Planning , Muhammad Ahmad al-Sulayman , said on Iraqi television that the continuing sanctions were unjust in targeting women , children and the elderly . |
| 17 | They seem bewildered by President Reagan 's abandonment of an energy-saving policy and uncertain about what to say on key issues . |
| 18 | ’ Business before debauchery , Lord , as they used to say on Old Earth . ’ |
| 19 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman heard me say on numerous occasions when the Environmental Protection Bill was being considered in Committee that it was under strength . |