Example sentences of "can [adv] say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just now I can only say to you all , Thank you very , very much indeed . ’ |
| 2 | Of course I can only say from my own experience . |
| 3 | Because we want to take as many voluntary redundancies and early retirements as possible , and with employee turnover still at a relatively high six per cent per year , we can not say at present just where and when the jobs will go . |
| 4 | Please note that meetings will not be held on all of the dates given on the form , but I can not say at this early stage how many will actually need to take place . |
| 5 | I can not say at what speed they moved , or how many times she circled the base of the tower , running as if her life depended on it . |
| 6 | That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency . |
| 7 | While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit . |
| 8 | Kaplan can not say for sure , but he hopes that his work ‘ will encourage those conductors who say they are devoted to finding out Mahler 's true interpretive intentions to reassess their own respective approaches ’ . |
| 9 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |
| 10 | He noted that " we can not say for how long we will be in charge of the state administration " but that " it might be five years or 10 " . |
| 11 | So here is mystery with a vengeance — we seem to have the attractive idea that Christ died for you and me , he went to the utmost limit for us , he gave everything away , and in some mysterious and tantalizing fashion he took my sin and yours upon himself , but we can not say to whom the price was paid ! |
| 12 | ‘ The eye can not say to the hand , ‘ I have no need of you ’ , nor the head to the feet , ‘ I have no need of you ’ . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) . |
| 14 | I can not say with any degree of certainty that this is happening , but the rolling performance is part of the bream 's basic instincts , and therefore I can not believe that certain members of a species abandon entirely a basic behavioural activity . |
| 15 | While one can not say with certainty that such images ‘ teach ’ boys to be aggressive in class , there is on the other hand little there which would permit boys to be quiet and accommodating , the attributes valued by the harassed classroom teacher . |
| 16 | I can not say with absolute certainty that Clare Mallender did not possess a photograph of me , but I can say that there was no reason why she should have done . ’ |
| 17 | This is an inherently vague and flexible concept and its uncertainty causes difficulties for the drafter , who can not say with absolute certainty that any particular clause will be effective . |
| 18 | There is only one proviso ; the programs have been tested and used a number of times , but we can not say with certainty that they are bug free . |
| 19 | Jessop argues that this is highly unlikely and that in a crisis we can not say in advance whether the state — now divorced from any one-to-one relationship with the ruling class — will assist capital , labour or ( as seems to be the perennial case in Britain ) pursue policies to the mutual ruin of the contending classes . |
| 20 | ‘ We can not say in each case exactly what the defendant did . |
| 21 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 22 | You can always say of . |
| 23 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 24 | Then if you get some answers then you can always say to him well this is what , you know , this is what |
| 25 | I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true . |
| 26 | My Lords , I can give My Noble Friend an assurance that Christianity as the main traditional religious tradition of this country will be taught at every key stage , both key stages er at key stages , one , two , three and four and that er knowledge of other religious is also a requirement , but I can also say to My Noble Friend that model syllabuses have just been released for consultation and there is a real concern which I share with My Noble Friend that young children at the ages between five and eleven are required to cover too many religions and that 's a question that will be covered during the consultation period . |
| 27 | Perhaps all one can really say about layout , in this sense , is that you have to remember that in Europe and America we read from left to right and top to bottom , in that order . |
| 28 | From the family home in Betchworth , Surrey , Nicholas 's stunned father Peter said : ‘ I want to know what I can legally say about this whole sad and unhappy upset . ’ |
| 29 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 30 | So er I mean you can actually say to your children , well okay you know if I , we die tomorrow in a road accident , there 'd be a liability to tax , erm and say the estate 's worth two hundred thousand , then fifty thousand would be liable to tax at forty pence in the pound , so there 'd be twenty thousand pound debt to pay to the revenue . |