Example sentences of "i can tell the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member .
2 Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services .
3 But I can tell the Hon. Gentleman that sufficient time will be given to take all such considerations properly into account .
4 I can tell the hon. Gentleman about the review , which was commissioned in 1989 .
5 I can tell the hon. Gentleman that his local authority of Dumbarton will benefit .
6 Unlike the Labour party and the Militant Tendency we tend not to have card-carrying women , but I can tell the hon. Lady , although I was not asked this question , that precisely 50 per cent .
7 I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe .
8 However , I can tell the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan what I am seeking to achieve .
9 At present , other matters are proceeding , but I can tell the hon. Gentleman — I am grateful to him for seeking clarification — that in respect of a further order for type 23s , I expect that to be at a broadly similar interval comparing this with the previous order that was placed .
10 I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the offshore safety division is a separate , discrete , independent division of the Health and Safety Executive .
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