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

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1 I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ?
2 Candidates say that on the doorstep , education questions concern mainly national policies .
3 They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes .
4 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 .
5 They say that without the introduction of a full-scale growth incentive public confidence will remain at rock bottom with no increase in spending .
6 Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and Oracle Corp say that under the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A the eight-processor model of Sun Microsystems ' new Sparcserver 1000 under Oracle7 Co-operative Server delivered 400.80 transactions a second for price-performance of $5,987 a tpsA .
7 At this point you say that in the night they all wanted to have a party so they got up .
8 Nobody will blame me if I say that in the circumstances I became very uneasy .
9 How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ?
10 But patients say that in the course of treatment , they are never permitted to express tearfulness or despair .
11 I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows .
12 But his family say that in the weeks before his death , Richard had appeared worried .
13 This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 .
14 Flaubert 's niece Caroline says that towards the end of his life he regretted not having had a wife and family .
15 He says that below the Forest of Dean lies one of Britains largest natural reservoirs .
16 But the Coroner says that for the time being , Marc 's death will remain a mystery .
17 Reuter says that with the help of General Media International Inc , the Penthouse magazine empire has just launched a dial-up service in the US where for a monthly fee plus usage , lechers can view their favourite Pets from their personal computer , ask them to perform various acts — and play photographer , taking shots with the mouse while the model performs …
18 ‘ She always says that on the court she is n't a mum for me and I ca n't imagine that she is n't my mum .
19 He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy .
20 And she says that at the moment she 's more interested in just having fun than dating .
21 Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes .
22 Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise .
23 He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . "
24 ‘ In the gospels , Sir John , Christ says that at the end of the world the very heavens will rock and the planets fall to earth in a fiery blaze . ’
25 every body always says that about the night life , I do n't know why
26 MacNeill Weir in his guide says that about the year 1827 a large distillery was built close to the River Laggan at Mulindry .
27 Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor .
28 He says that under the circumstances he did the right thing .
29 But his mother says that without the compensation her son had hoped for , it 's his long term future she 's worried about .
30 In the last chapter , in prison , he says that without the crime he would not have found within himself such questions , desires , feelings , needs , strivings , and development . ’
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