Example sentences of "what we [vb mod] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | now , what we would say like , if somebody has erm you know , by the end of year seven done that |
| 2 | Erm but what we would say at this stage , is that there does n't seem any rationale behind the discounts that have been applied by by the County Council , indeed we have a situation in Hambleton district , where there is a seventy percent discount , erm which does n't seem to us to have been explained or justified . |
| 3 | But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants . |
| 4 | But what we would say to you , if you 're actually thinking about going into this media , raising your profile a bit , becoming more pro-active , that local radio provides an admirable opportunity for developing your skills . |
| 5 | So what We 'll say trial of quinine , yeah ? |
| 6 | what we 'll say to you is that you got that parcel on Tuesday |
| 7 | The Quarto version assigns the play 's final lines — ‘ The weight of this sad time we must obey ; /Speak what we feel , not what we ought to say . |
| 8 | ‘ What we can say , however , is that smacking and beating mothers do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . ’ |
| 9 | What we can say , though , is that juvenile crime and street violence have been characteristics of British society over hundreds of years , rather than being indicative of a contemporary moral and social disintegration . |
| 10 | ‘ But that does not help what we can say to the Iranians . |
| 11 | What we can say instead , unmysteriously , is that putting in the coin , like every other putting-in of a coin , activated the indeterministic mechanism . |
| 12 | Physics concerns what we can say about nature . |
| 13 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 14 | But what we can say is that we can select out from the group of solid tumours the ones that do badly . |
| 15 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 16 | But what we can say is that there is a length of 306 characters in cows , which is virtually identical to a length of 306 characters in peas . |
| 17 | What we can say is that the landscape and the resources are already there as background noise and it will be people who decide on the importance of the new material and how , or even if , it is used . |
| 18 | What we can say is that where pollution control has been attempted it has usually taken a crude and simple form . |
| 19 | Physics concerns only what we can say about nature ’ . |
| 20 | Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance . |
| 21 | What we can say is that Caribbean usages have spread outwards beyond the Caribbean community itself , so that there are a number of expressions of Caribbean origin now in use in London both within and outside the black community . |
| 22 | Okay , so , I think what we can say is that agricultural trade in absolute terms has probably risen |
| 23 | A rather unusual lecture , because in devising these lectures we 've actually worked with local school teachers in working out what we can say to these thirteen to fourteen year old kids , because of course in university circles usually one 's dealing with pupils , students , eighteen , nineteen , twenty and post-graduates . |
| 24 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 25 | Now what we could say is well there would be trust . |
| 26 | That , that 's what We could say that . |
| 27 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 28 | ‘ That Boy 's a bit exclusive today , is n't he ? ’ that was what we used to say , the joke being that actually Boy was there nearly every day right from the start ; and every day that he was there , he went home with someone . |
| 29 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |