Example sentences of "[modal v] say be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process of losing his undisputed title to Bowe , on what one must say was an overwhelming points decision , Holyfield defined the qualities of a true champion . |
| 2 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |
| 3 | Instead he fixed his eyes on his hands , which were clasped together on the desk , studying them as if the words he must say were written on his bony fingers . |
| 4 | What he should say is ‘ I have several different kinds of logical object in my document . |
| 5 | They do n't look — I mean , there was , or I should say is , I suppose , nothing like this in the twenty-fifth century . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | So I think , if I 've got ta say , mum 's I should say was maternity which you , they were very , very political animals . |
| 9 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ As for his hard-man image , all I 'll say is that he would n't have lasted five minutes in my day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All I 'll say is you missed a good lunch . |
| 16 | And they 'll say is it our , are our output rates sensible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | All you 'll say is sit , stay , there 's a good boy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What the outsider might say is this . |
| 23 | And erm what you might say is , well what is a group ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 27 | And if you look at there are certain er types of people in history who use very non-symmetrical hand gestures who perhaps you might say were not the most open communicators in the world |
| 28 | Some of these newsreels I might say were faked , I do n't mean George Albert Smith 's were faked , but erm there was for example the case erm of the Boer War . |
| 29 | With regard to the embalming of the Egyptians , whatever they might say was their motive , it appears that it was a catch upon the public . |
| 30 | All that science could say is : The universe is as it is now because it was as it was then . |