Example sentences of "say that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Now we 'll here very quickly from people who say that we 've devolved more money to schools .
2 Yeah I , I , I think that er the , the , the M S Society have er er say that we 've got eighty thousand members in the United Kingdom , Great Britain , Northern Ireland only problem is they appear to have eighty thousand different conditions
3 so , I must confess when I say that we 've had bad , like that time when Did you give er Lucy back her English ?
4 As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ?
5 I think I speak for everybody and say that we wish you well in this project .
6 That 's what we mean when we say that we make cookers for cooks .
7 Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ .
8 It expresses what we mean when we say that we have our reservations or vacillate about something .
9 ‘ They say that we have become selfish and have taken too much from the Earth without giving anything back .
10 What is the largest single event of sheer naked coincidence , sheer unadulterated miraculous luck , that we are allowed to get away with in our theories , and still say that we have a satisfactory explanation of life ?
11 Right , so say that we have thirty , three observations , right we 've got three parameters in this particular model , right , therefore degrees of freedom will be thirty , right , and we 've jusk the critical values run across the rows alright .
12 Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and
13 And say that we do n't want anyone to get hurt .
14 But I I would slip back to my normal gloomy cautious self , and say that we do need to balance the years of deficit we have had , with years of surplus , we need to look at N C V O's finances over a longer term , than simply one year .
15 We expect , or say that we expect , that individuals will be appointed to social offices of all kinds in their individual capacity and on the basis of their individual merit .
16 The jobs from which we say that we want to rescue people are in industries which , thankfully , are now in decline .
17 First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind .
18 Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi
19 If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education .
20 Miners say that they indicate the whereabouts of the ore by tapping on the shaft walls with their antler-picks , hence the name .
21 It is n't a good system , and we have now heard both Jimmy Airlie and John Edmunds say that they hope it will be the last time it is used .
22 Workers at Dowty aerospace can at least take comfort in one thing — the firms management say that they hope their streamlining programme is now at an end and that no further major redundancies will be announced .
23 ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it .
24 The police say that they 've had reports of sightings of Sir Roy around London .
25 The agents dealing with the sale of the mill say that they 've already had inquiries about the site , for a number of uses .
26 Meanwhile the pair say that they 've had trouble in the past with vandalism and youths prowling around the back of the council owned flats .
27 and say that they 've got , have every right to do it .
28 Forestry workers say that they fear injury , or even death , from metal splinters .
29 Three out of four PMT sufferers say that they overspend in the days before their period starts — the average ‘ blown ’ is £39 — and some women spend more than £100 , premenstrually , on unnecessary extras .
30 That attitude is incomprehensible in hon. Members who say that they wish to represent the interests of the consumers in their constituency .
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