Example sentences of "to say [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I did n't , but it 's nice to say in n it ? |
| 2 | What he or she has to say is always open to comment , questioning , refutation . |
| 3 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 4 | ‘ What kind of thing to say is that ! ’ said Gloria . |
| 5 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 6 | What I 'm trying to say is , when you 're in the state of consciousness triggered by sexual stimulation , you should be able to breach time and space . |
| 7 | — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’ |
| 8 | What was he like , you say , and what you want to say is what was he really like then ? |
| 9 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 10 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 11 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 12 | What they have to say is not the result of a private negotiation between self and text , nor is it an unmediated response of gender identity to a representation of masculinity : it is mediated by the position they take up as readers . |
| 13 | The first thing to say is that this is one of those things that can disappoint us . |
| 14 | Travelling alone , which needless to say is rather unusual for a member of the fair sex . ’ |
| 15 | If what he has to say is worth hearing , why is n't the interviewer recording what he says ? |
| 16 | I realise what I am about to say is funny , but it gives an insight to Carl 's eccentricity . |
| 17 | What we are going to say is simply that the parts of this diet which are easy and effortless and even enjoyable to you will become part of your normal eating in the future . |
| 18 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 19 | Perhaps what Wordsworth is trying to say is not as unorthodox as it may sound . |
| 20 | I 'm the company secretary , so it was essential that I was there and , as our timetables kept being shifted , I could see Martin looking at me as if to say is she going to make it ? |
| 21 | All you have to say is ‘ no ’ . |
| 22 | What I am trying to say is that the anorexic has sufficient sense of identity to know that identity is something to be fought for — by whatever means . |
| 23 | What it fails to say is that it is a high intensity workout which does not suit all fitness levels . |
| 24 | What I mean to say is … |
| 25 | All she seems able to say is , ‘ Do n't tell me what to do , I can look after myself . ’ |
| 26 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 27 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 28 | This absence of anything to say is perhaps the most significant fact of all . |
| 29 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 30 | The staff here maybe I should be I should n't be saying this the staff are finding it very difficult I mean what I 'm trying to say is for goodness sake eyes should be opened . |