Example sentences of "[be] [adj] say that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry to say that the same human impulses acted with me , particularly in relation to my bank manager , and I wrote a letter of acceptance . |
| 2 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 3 | Those necessities are sacks of flour and sacks of rice , although I am glad to say that the Iranian Government are now providing flour for every refugee within their borders , and certainly for the Shias . |
| 4 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |
| 5 | I am happy to say that the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux are currently reviewing this policy and are confident that the situation will improve . |
| 6 | However , it would be wrong to say that the only cases of departure from putting tonic stress on the last lexical word were cases of contrast or emphasis . |
| 7 | Although some may be quick to say that the vast majority of the book was actually written by Bullett , and not by Freud , no less than the actual intellectual framework of the book apparently seems to have been due to Freud 's input , er , Freud certainly was psychoanalytically trained , in any , in any sense of the word . |
| 8 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 9 | Anything Royal Portrush choose to do is done well , and McGimpsey would be first to say that the famous Dunluce course is in superb shape . |
| 10 | Thus it would be difficult to say that the second person of the trinity is somehow male and the third female . |
| 11 | Er just to run through what the two what the two schools sort of think it will be fair to say that the traditional school thinks as follows . |
| 12 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 13 | The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts , but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs , including small and large carnivores , were warm-blooded , active animals . |
| 14 | Furthermore , while it may well be correct to say that the implied licence doctrine ( so long as it survived ) itself involved the " adaptation " of the literal application of the statutory provisions " to meet one special type of case " , I do not think it correct that the [ old ] decisions … authorise or justify an application of the statutory provisions otherwise than in accordance with their ordinary and natural meaning … |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party is increasingly losing credibility with patients , the public and the NHS staff because we are seeing concrete achievements by the NHS as the reforms work out in practice . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the Labour party has been closely associated with the development of those dogmas over many years . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 18 | But the complication of such an operation would be considerable ; and it is reasonable to say that the entire population of the Pacific nations , even if they inhabit the Atlantic seaboard , can make use of the goods that are carried across the Pacific Ocean . |
| 19 | It is safe to say that the traditional Marxist ‘ base and superstructure ’ is notable for its absence in Foucault , but it is less clear what he thinks is the role of economics in social and penal change . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is safe to say that the minimum requirements must be that the product runs on standard platforms while allowing data created within other environments to be imported and incorporated . |
| 21 | It is safe to say that the entire nation is filled with a believing trust in the Führer such as has never before existed to this extent . |
| 22 | It is accurate to say that the 80486 and Pentium processors use many of the same implementation techniques as RISC processors , but there is nothing in either processor that can be called a ‘ RISC integer unit ’ without distorting the term beyond any usefulness . ’ |
| 23 | It is accurate to say that the 80486 and Pentium processors use many of the same implementation techniques as RISC processors , but there is nothing in either processor that can be called a ‘ RISC integer unit ’ without distorting the term beyond any usefulness . ’ |
| 24 | In general , it is fair to say that the legally-sensitive nature of the statutory audit has tended to encourage the auditing profession to deflate shareholders ' expectations of audit . |
| 25 | Although a succession of Conservative governments since 1979 has expressed a firm belief in monetary methods of managing the economy , with the emphasis on controlling inflation , it is fair to say that the empirical justifica-tion for much of this policy has been thin . |
| 26 | It is fair to say that the greatest violators of human rights across the world are terrorists , but I stressed the fact that it was important for the Government of India to be more open in dealing with the accusations . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is fair to say that the chemical industry is seen as one of the worst polluters . |
| 28 | But it is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . |
| 29 | It is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . ’ |
| 30 | I hope it is fair to say that the main thrust of the defence to this claim was based on law . |