Example sentences of "say [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While blithely ignoring this fact , all Mr Clement will say is that ‘ bluntly , the Shadow Cabinet and unions need to get their fingers out — with some expedition — to set the limits of the proposed legal framework ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ All I can say is that the law is the law and its enforcement requires no commendation from me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ One thing I would say is that we get inundated with rent-a-quote demands . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | What you can say is that there 's been acidification . |
| 11 | All I can say is that a bloke in a top-hat spoke to me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team . |
| 14 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 15 | All I will say is that I reject as a model of justice the view which has temporarily gained favour in many developed societies : namely , the view that each person is entitled to what he can get , and let the next man look out for himself as best he can . |
| 16 | I think what we would now say is that of course women are extremely competent programme-makers , but there is n't a lot of evidence that they want to cover different topics . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | What it will say is that the chemistry can be modified to take account of the particular mineral and its final base . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Birdland 's manager Wayne Morris told NME : ‘ All I can say is that reports of the band leaving Lazy are totally untrue . |
| 22 | All I can say is that if Mr Kinnock fancies a bankrupt 's vote , he can have mine , and be welcome to it . |
| 23 | All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards . |
| 24 | All I can say is that my students were gobsmacked by Paul Thorburn 's 70m penalty . |
| 25 | What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together . |
| 26 | All one need say is that this is how things often are . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The worst one can fairly say is that in some scenes — the Andúril ones , the Field of Cormallen , the eagle 's song — Tolkien under-estimated his audience 's resistance and reached too hastily for the sublime or the impressive . |
| 30 | 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 , . |