Example sentences of "say in the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | People must be allowed say in the development of their own environment . |
| 2 | like er we have sinned against our fellow men , you know that one we say in the prayer of confession . |
| 3 | Since 1976 the trend has been reversed , managerial values have again become predominant and the bureaucracy has expanded , albeit with some strengthening of the legislative role of the National People 's Congress and , since the Democracy Movement of 1978–80 , a strengthening of the role of ‘ workers representative congresses ’ to give workers a limited say in the management of enterprises ( White 1985 ) . |
| 4 | The question which is perhaps left open by the Court 's decisions so far is whether a retention of the business 's identity can be found , say in the case of a franchise , where none of the employees , equipment or buildings used by the transferor in the activity pass to the transferee . |
| 5 | Just now he 's working on a deal that could give him a big say in the life of a lady who 'll ‘ definitely ’ be in the Top Ten within weeks . |
| 6 | doctor if you do n't agree with what it says , erm , you can obviously mention that to and er er along speedily say in the course of this week , the matter can be mentioned in formal to me , erm one morning at ten o'clock next week I would of thought . |
| 7 | We represent over four million levy paying members , the trade unions that is , and it 's only right that they should have a proper say in the election of the Lad Labour leader , not just the thirty percent as is being suggested here . |
| 8 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 9 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 10 | Because the project had no say in the choice of home help for a client , the development officer sometimes found a client with a home help whom she thought was unsuitable or would not work well with her support workers . |
| 11 | The unions ' say in the choice of leader may also be reduced . |
| 12 | While neither the National Union nor the peers could have a direct say in the choice of leader it was nevertheless thought desirable , if only for reasons of tact , to know their views . |
| 13 | We can not expect to swallow everything that politicians say in the heat of an election , but listening to the leader of the Liberal Democrats yesterday it was difficult to believe one 's own ears . |
| 14 | I did n't get any say in the matter of how big or which brand it was , but the barmaid smiled sweetly and said ‘ Merci ’ when I paid her , because they all pretend to be French even if they are n't . |
| 15 | A genuine global partnership must be struck between rich and poor in which all contribute and all have an equal say in the allocation of resources . |
| 16 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 17 | The agreement , which the Prime Minister has accepted , will exclude Britain from any say in the appointment of the president , vice-president and executive board of the ECB . |
| 18 | Moreover , the distribution of money ( say in the form of transfer payments ) increases individuals ' incomes . |
| 19 | Stockbrokers W I Carr are aiming the Helmsman Self-Managed Personal Pension at controlling directors , partners , self-employed and senior executives who want some say in the control of their investments . |
| 20 | A variety of positions exist ranging from free market , through welfare pluralist ( in which a mix of state , voluntary , market and family forms of provision coexist ) , welfare corporatist ( in which trade unions and employers would have more say in the planning of welfare ) , to alternative social planning ( in which social services would be deprofessionalised and democratised ) . |
| 21 | Single and over forty , or as they say in the world of women executives , SINBAD ( Single Income , Neurotic , Bankable and Desperate ) . |
| 22 | Dr Kristof Lis , Poland 's minister in charge of the Plenipotentiary for Changes in Ownership , is currently having to wrestle with the fact of real worker power — from the concept of actual ownership to the committees which have a large say in the running of industry . |
| 23 | Many Tories believe he will have to make concessions to the aspirations of Scots for more say in the running of their own affairs . |
| 24 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |
| 25 | But it also guaranteed Fields equal say in the running of the company , by the expedient of comprising the board of four directors . |
| 26 | When activists like the Cape Town Sixteen fight this system of oppression and exploitation , they are demanding a democratic say in the running of their lives and and the right to determine their own futures . |
| 27 | That they had more say in the running of their industry of the railway . |
| 28 | The wording of 72 ( contrasting ‘ states of consciousness ’ with ‘ dispositions ’ ) reminds one of what Gilbert Ryle says in The Concept of Mind , and the wording of 101 ( ‘ We can not separate his ‘ thinking ’ from his activity' ) of what he says in his contribution to The Human Agent but Ryle and Wittgenstein , it seems to me , agree only on the negative point , that thinking is not an accompaniment of speaking and acting . |
| 29 | Andy is telling Kermit it will be all right , Dad 's here to take care of us , and Kermit says in the voice of doom , the voice of a gypsy fortune-teller , ‘ Do n't trust Dad . ’ |
| 30 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |