Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's necessary to set the scene for that to say that in fact as between the County Council and Barton Willmore there 's very little difference in what we see are the requirements for the ring around the city , we both have a figure of of six thousand and something quite small . |
| 2 | He realized abruptly that there was no room for doubt : Lorton had condemned himself when he rang Dougal just after six to say that Newley was back in London . |
| 3 | So perhaps it is not so far-fetched after all to say that ‘ marriages are made in heaven ’ ! |
| 4 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 5 | Can we use item one two nine on the minutes , first of all to say that some of us were at the H I V awareness training session last week , with Robin , we enjoyed it enormously , she 's hiding behind the thing . |
| 6 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 7 | John Ellis wrote to Linnaeus in 1758 to say that he , with Collinson and Ehret , had been to Richard Warner 's garden at Woodford to see his rare plant , ‘ like a Jasmine , with a large double white flower , very odoriferous ’ . |
| 8 | Staff had seen the written guidelines of the scheme , mentioned above , and the director expanded on these to say that the exercise was : |
| 9 | This is not at all to say that there is among the professions an animus against the industrial co-operative as incorporated body for doing business . |
| 10 | It does not embarrass me at all to say that I did not approve of the principle of the community charge . |
| 11 | He had no need , no need at all to say that , beautiful though he might have mentioned he thought her , she just did not hold those sort of charms for him — which was what he more or less did say when he drawled , ‘ Would you think me dreadfully ungallant should I mop my brow and tell you — that 's a relief ? ’ |
| 12 | There was a newsflash at nine to say that the rescue party had reached the injured man and were now returning to the surface , and then nothing until almost midnight . |
| 13 | But with the growth of these other uses , what exactly did it mean by 1990 to say that ‘ TV ’ was a mass medium ? |