Example sentences of "[adj] say that [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return .
2 Without wanting to appear cynical , it 's pretty safe to say that in the run up to elections , one expects the odd vote-catching ruse from politicians .
3 Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after .
4 So far , I am happy to say that in the case of children — I was about to come to that exception — and in the case of rape victims , the balance that Parliament has chosen , in that it has granted exceptions in those cases , has proved to be an effective one .
5 Out of 10 who said their style was 9,9 at the beginning of the week , only one is likely to be able to say that at the end , affirms Penfold with relish .
6 If the right hon. Gentleman had paid more attention to the CBI yesterday , he would have heard the director general say that since the crash of October 1987 , real take-home pay is up by 11 per cent. , manufacturing productivity is up by 20 per cent .
7 I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits .
8 It is fair to say that during the day and a half of discussions in June 1993 alarm was expressed at the difficulties posed by the future of the historian 's resource .
9 It is fair to say that by the time of the establishment of OEEC progress in Benelux had more or less ground to a halt .
10 it is fair to say that in the case of er in the case of Alwyn , erm because of the special circumstances where we did n't actually use a clerk of works ever on that job
11 I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community .
12 You , you , you 're right to say that on the whole there , the managerial farms were in , in the north , although there w there was clearly some in the south
13 Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having .
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