Example sentences of "[vb infin] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will need to say on the application form whether you want to vote by post or by proxy . |
| 2 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 3 | Er I would like to say at the outset that erm we we support the deposit version of the er the deposit version allocations of the alteration . |
| 4 | Erm , I would like to say at the start . |
| 5 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 6 | Not because of their undoubted erudition , acuity and ( not least ) charm have pre-empted everything we , their successors , might have to say on the matter ( culture is evolving at too vertiginous a speed for that to happen ) , but because we are n't alone in having read Barthes and Eco and assimilated their methodology . |
| 7 | In fact , as is now abundantly clear , it meant that the Government would ratify Maastricht , but without the social chapter , whatever Parliament might have to say on the matter . |
| 8 | One factor with which the Baghdad planners had failed to reckon seems to have been the contribution to an enemy 's performance of simple patriotism , the force which impels people to fight to defend their native soil against an invader , whatever they may have to say about the way things are run at home . |
| 9 | be able to say to you which I 'll have to say next term when I go in to do my inspections , I 'll have to say to the teacher er , one |
| 10 | erm I would have to say in the university 's defence , as you would imagine I would say |
| 11 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 12 | Now what did you want to say at the back ? |