Example sentences of "[modal v] say [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he should say is ‘ I have several different kinds of logical object in my document . |
| 2 | They do n't look — I mean , there was , or I should say is , I suppose , nothing like this in the twenty-fifth century . |
| 3 | The most you should say is that on these facts there is evidence of negligence ( or unreasonableness ) , and that a finding to that effect would clearly be right ( or conversely ) . |
| 4 | ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 7 | All I 'll say is that you must be honest and , if it 's wrong and this man is a mistake , you must have the courage to tell me . |
| 8 | ‘ As for his hard-man image , all I 'll say is that he would n't have lasted five minutes in my day . |
| 9 | And similarly of course when you want to lie or to mislead — to give someone a false belief — what you 'll say is not necessarily something you disbelieve , but rather something you believe you disbelieve . |
| 10 | But I 'll say is it on the gardening page , is it on the letters page , pray for the sports page I always say and people look at me quite you know with a quite a look on their face when I sort of say that and I 'm absolutely serious , I 'll say you know if you get a four paragraph story on the gardeners ' page , you 're home . |
| 11 | All I 'll say is you missed a good lunch . |
| 12 | And they 'll say is it our , are our output rates sensible . |
| 13 | See if I said to my mum and dad I 'm stopping at Hannah 's tonight she 'll say is Emma stopping with her and I 'll say yes . |
| 14 | you know , if it 's got to be done , it 's got to be done , I wo n't worry about it , please ev , all I 'll say is , is , is can we please try and arrange it in advance , I 'd rather |
| 15 | All you 'll say is sit , stay , there 's a good boy . |
| 16 | I 've followed the events of of this erm unhappy but hardy perennial some time now erm I 've found it unusual because there was no Liberal volte face until now and er quite a lot of things happened where the Liberals changed their mind and I naturally started to wonder what has happened to make this change of mind come about and all I 'll say is I hope that it does n't have much to do with events in other counties or with any by-election . |
| 17 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 18 | What the outsider might say is this . |
| 19 | And erm what you might say is , well what is a group ? |
| 20 | Then what you might say is well what ar y'know erm you might say well s one define aggression , two define one theory , define the other and then y'know just structure it so you 're talking about single or sentences maybe on on a line that go down to very little but enough to show how you would go about answering the question . |
| 21 | have held lengthy dialogue with the commission , no formal clearance what so ever has even been given commission suggested and encouraged to notify , but they did not , they had the opportunity to do so , they declined it , one might say is a market of risk takers , this is a risk that they took . |
| 22 | All that science could say is : The universe is as it is now because it was as it was then . |
| 23 | It rarely seems to deliver what any of us , hand on heart , could say is justice . |
| 24 | Now what we could say is well there would be trust . |
| 25 | All I 'd say is that I do n't quite agree with Stuart 's description of that summer with Oliver . |
| 26 | philosophical side of Marxism which is very interesting and there 's a lot of very deep thoughts but what we 've been given your definition , is what I 'd say is the political strategy that Marx said er was necessary to achieve the philosophical ends . |
| 27 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 28 | And suppose I did get through all they 'd say is it 's nothing to do with them they were n't even in the Company at that time — and how many of them were ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ All I 'd say is , why are you so sure that this balcony is n't bugged ? ’ |
| 30 | And and , and I mean all I 'd say is I know it 's an issue geared to hearts too and this will be explained , so I just before |