Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] say that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham 's ‘ little ewe lamb ’ has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped . |
| 2 | I will only say that proceedings should be brought before the court by way of appeal in contempt matters only in exceptional cases . |
| 3 | We have heard on the television that there will be another and there are lots of people who are in , in absolute despair , because of what happened to their houses and their properties and their furniture and everything else and I think it is only right and proper and I can only say that West Sussex County Council has by so many people that it has |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if it is indeed she , ’ came another , harder voice , ‘ I can only say that Rose Alderley is most tiresome . |
| 5 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 6 | I THINK I can safely say that Peter Greenaway 's latest film will do nothing to increase the appreciation of food in this country . |
| 7 | You could even say that Bert was embarrassed . |
| 8 | You could even say that Milton 's rejecting the future in this speech and saying I label sin what is going to become , if you have prophetic powers , new kind of ethic . |
| 9 | As Michael Codron recalled : ‘ You could never say that Kenneth was ever happy . |
| 10 | I think you could truly say that education can not thrive without enjoyment . |
| 11 | Who can honestly say that Essex man was completely misguided ? |
| 12 | The same will apply in deciding what we may legitimately say that animals , in the absence of language , see , hear , or smell . |
| 13 | Thus even before starting any calculations we may immediately say that A will only have an unc component and that will be independent of |
| 14 | One might further say that Paul would surely want to be judged in terms of the highest that he knew . |
| 15 | we 'll just say that Kerry and Sandy will be coming to collect it . |
| 16 | We shall therefore say that knife , fork and spoon are quasi-hyponyms of cutlery , and cutlery is a quasi-superordinate . |
| 17 | Today , benefiting from psychoanalytic insights , we would probably say that man was distinguishable from the beasts by virtue of his possession of a highly evolved and differentiated ego , and still more by his acquisition of the superego . |
| 18 | Looking back , we can now say that Franco 's response to the Moroccan crisis gave a clear indication that 1956 marked a turning point in his political and personal life . |
| 19 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 20 | One can reasonably say that Balboa 's triumph ultimately gave us San Diego and Los Angeles , Santa Barbara and Yerba Buena , San Ysidro and San Onofre , San Clemente and San Francisco . |
| 21 | The sociologist would also suggest that these patterned regularities in social life mean that social behaviour is predictable , i.e. that one can safely say that individuals in similar social situations will behave similarly . |
| 22 | Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer . |