Example sentences of "[pers pn] to say that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 2 | He took to task a nurse from Guy 's hospital who interrupted him to say that those at the hospital were improving the quality of the health care they delivered . |
| 3 | Suffice it to say that such is the complexity of this area of the law that one case on the subject , discussed in Chapter 13 , has already reached the House of Lords ; it is unlikely to be the last . |
| 4 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 5 | Suffice it to say that some people are better built at the beginning . |
| 6 | Suffice it to say that this discourse is generalising and intemperate , and lacks depth and clarity . |
| 7 | The Second Symphony is a work that wears well and suffice it to say that this newcomer can hold its head high in this company . |
| 8 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 9 | But the real question is , rather , whether there is any commonly accepted core of meaning among the various uses of the term which entitles us to say that this or that way of using it constitutes an abuse or misuse of it . |