Example sentences of "have say [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 2 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 3 | I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said about the unacceptable level of unemployment in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | And it would have to be found er if we were to move to the er position that Mr Curtis has said about the total need , it would have to be found somewhere else . |
| 5 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 6 | MacMillan has said from the first announcements that it would be a big company ballet , involving a large cast , and he has provided just that . |
| 7 | Gandhi 's teaching concerning the symbolic nature of personifications of Truth in a variety of different forms seems on the face of it to correspond to what Tillich has to say about the symbolic nature of Christian terminology . |
| 8 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first . |
| 10 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 11 | In view of what you , Mr. Speaker , have had to say about the Consolidated Fund Bill , can you give some assurance that , if this matter about Maxwell and him laundering money is raised , you will ensure that people such as Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield will be given special tickets to sit in the Gallery so that they can hear the debate and so that they can draw the attention of various channels to the fact that perhaps Mr. Lightman should investigate the missing Maxwell millions , and perhaps we can find out whether Roger Windsor , Mr. Maxwell 's nark , was paid £50,000 out of the Daily Mirror 's missing millions . |
| 12 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 13 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 14 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 15 | It was best not to think about what Cabochon would have to say about the sexual readjustment . |
| 16 | He did not care whether or not Gunhilda had ever made her profession : she had worn the habit ; she had seemed to understand what Anselm had said about the religious life . |
| 17 | She tried to remember what Mrs Hollidaye had said about the many different ways of being brave . |
| 18 | In view of what Marc had said about the next few days , Sarella was surprised when he sought her out before dinner . |
| 19 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 20 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 21 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 22 | Every single component , Dr Barnard had said with the full concurrence of his military colleagues at Fort Halstead — the copper wires , their plastic covering , the Semtex , the pulse-receiver , the battery , the brass and the leather stitching — was of Soviet manufacture . |
| 23 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
| 24 | Well , more so , actually , than South African Prime Minister D. F. Malan , who , on being introduced to Dudley Nourse 's 1951 Springboks during their visit to Parliament in Cape Town on the eve of their departure for the 1951 tour of England , had said to the legendary Nourse : ‘ I hope you are enjoying your visit to South Africa . ’ |
| 25 | Carlie had said to the social worker in charge of her case . |
| 26 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 27 | The County Council 's environmental consultants had said of the inner northern routes , rather than damaging an irrepr irreplaceable sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 28 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 29 | Jane had said after the shameful confrontation at the ball . |
| 30 | So , as Engels had said in the Anti-Dühring , ‘ The political order remained feudal , while society became more and more bourgeois ’ . |