Example sentences of "it be [prep] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 2 | It 's worth saying that the BBC 's vision of our journalism is also based on research about what our audience wants . |
| 3 | particularly the length of time that was away I was really sure that had got on to incidentally it 's worth saying that the B B C re they do they use professional readers who make a report on every piece they receive and they file them . |
| 4 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 5 | Yes , we have a parent governor , a teacher governor and a student governor and I think it 's worth saying that our student governor was elected by thirteen hundred out of our sixteen hundred children this year . |
| 6 | Well a very ordinary thing has happened there , but it has happened on such an extraordinary scale that I think it 's worth saying . |
| 7 | Essentially they will send a form out saying You 've recently got a grant estate , you 've said it 's worth say twenty five thousand pounds , we 're checking up please let us have a list of assets and liabilities . |
| 8 | It 's like saying all women are potential whores or baby-batterers . |
| 9 | But living with another woman — it 's like saying you can do without men altogether . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like saying why do you breathe ? ’ , he said . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like saying the government should advise people not to buy houses with leaky roofs , ’ says Michael Marcus , of the R & D division of the Federal Communications Commission in the US . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like saying Bob Marley was just a reggae guy . |
| 13 | It 's like saying , please do n't tell , please do n't broadcast it to the world , I can get hurt . |
| 14 | It 's like saying " No " to profit . |
| 15 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's like saying an all-woman band are just vaginas on stage . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like saying an all-woman band are just vaginas on stage . |
| 18 | To the mechanics who 've nutured the old warhouse over the years , it 's like saying goodbye to an old friend . |
| 19 | It 's like saying there 's a building that 's worth something and here 's a person that 's worth something , so live up to it , rather than putting people into a cramped space they 're used to . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 21 | It is worth saying accordingly that Denethor , contrasted with Saruman as he is in other ways with Théoden , is an arch-conservative . |
| 22 | It is worth saying that , with fifteen bedrooms , Moffat House is one of the largest hotels in this book , but in common with the others , the service is warm and personal . |
| 23 | We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole . |
| 24 | It is worth saying that in all recent discussions about eastern Europe the former Soviet Union — viewed at one time as a Great Red Hope for ELT — is barely mentioned . |
| 25 | On the hon. Gentleman 's other point , it is worth saying that with 9 per cent . |
| 26 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |
| 27 | I think erm it is worth saying Chairman , it has n't been mentioned yet , er that in fact we 're talking about the the tenant farmers and their livelihood . |
| 28 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 29 | The only way you can justify it is by saying it 's a means to an end . |
| 30 | It is like saying ‘ when we have restored our credibility , we shall take firm steps to restore our credibility ’ . |