Example sentences of "can say be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I can say is that the law is the law and its enforcement requires no commendation from me . ’ |
| 2 | All we can say is that the burden of the wood adds further poignancy to an already heart-rending story , and throughout the journey acts as an all too visible reminder to Abraham of the act he is about to commit . |
| 3 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 4 | Peter Carter-Ruck , a leading libel lawyer , said : ‘ All you can say is that it would probably still be held to be defamatory to call someone homosexual today when they 're not . |
| 5 | ‘ All I can say is that I recognise the incredible enthusiasm that there is for this sport among a section of the listening public — especially Daily Telegraph readers . |
| 6 | What you can say is that there 's been acidification . |
| 7 | All I can say is that a bloke in a top-hat spoke to me . |
| 8 | I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here , but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has , one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man 's professionalism without having to see it under pressure . |
| 9 | All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , all I can say is that there is a whole lot of bloody sheep as symbols as well in the Christian religion , ’ said Alison as she packed up her ‘ baroque ’ fiddle . |
| 11 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 12 | In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music . |
| 13 | Birdland 's manager Wayne Morris told NME : ‘ All I can say is that reports of the band leaving Lazy are totally untrue . |
| 14 | All I can say is that if Mr Kinnock fancies a bankrupt 's vote , he can have mine , and be welcome to it . |
| 15 | All I can say is that my students were gobsmacked by Paul Thorburn 's 70m penalty . |
| 16 | All one can say is that the story being told ( or hinted at ) is also one of gloom , death and parting , like that between Eärendil and Elwing , the mariner and the weeping women of Middle-earth . |
| 17 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 18 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 19 | About all one can say is that while it is only too easy to make a weak material ( or indeed a material of no strength at all ) from strong chemical bonds , it is not possible to make very strong materials from weak bonds . |
| 20 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 21 | Well , all I can say is that the strain is driving Jim and me to distraction … . ’ |
| 22 | The only thing I can say is that at least my mistakes are genuine . |
| 23 | All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’ |
| 24 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |
| 25 | However , Hyperion do not name the venue and all I can say is that the given acoustics have not been allowed to supply the degree of warm enrichment this music seems to demand . |
| 26 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 27 | It is extremely difficult to construct a cost-of-living index for governmental expenditure and the most one can say is that , very roughly , the ordinary revenue of the Crown probably kept pace with inflation , but did not increase in real terms to meet the larger calls being made upon government . |
| 28 | The most we can say is that if there are still economies of scale unexploited , the industry is a natural monopoly . |
| 29 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 30 | All I can say is that the yes of God 's love is stronger than the no of his judgment and that I do believe that despite all the shadows and elements of chaos in the world , in the universe and in life , God 's love is stronger and he is a God of love . |