Example sentences of "say in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , if it 's a terrifically hot day and you do n't feel like burning out a gasket on the tops , Malham is just the place for an easy stroll , going " just steady on " , as they say in the Dales . |
| 2 | People must be allowed say in the development of their own environment . |
| 3 | I go back to what I say in the beginning . |
| 4 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 5 | like er we have sinned against our fellow men , you know that one we say in the prayer of confession . |
| 6 | And , as I say in the song , we wanted justice and it never came . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | They arrived gleaming but they were soon , as they say in the antiques trade , ‘ distressed ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These two populations were then brought together in the fraternal Orange Order and the Order had a major say in the composition and policies of the Unionist Party . |
| 12 | But , as they say in the entertainment field , the show must go on . |
| 13 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 14 | Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y . |
| 15 | And traditionally , I find , British parents tend to erm say on the one hand we 'll let the school get on and do their professional job — I find it quite depressing they do n't ask for more say in the organisation , but they do demand , quite rightly , the right to criticise when things go wrong . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At this point he does n't give a toss what they say in the mess room tomorrow . |
| 19 | As they say in the North , he 's a warm man . |
| 20 | They have equal say in the decision . |
| 21 | They say in the village that she took Miguel 's soul with her . ’ |
| 22 | Gone were such controversial elements as the plans to abolish security of tenure for civil servants , to enable public-sector wages and state pensions to be reduced , and to give the federal government a decisive say in the finances of state and municipal governments . |
| 23 | I mean th , they what they say in the press about her is , is terrible , I think ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It enables a voice to be given to interest groups which ought to be heard and , possibly , even exercise influence but which otherwise would lack a sufficient say in the affairs of the nation . |
| 26 | But , as they say in the ads on the telly , I knew a man who did . |
| 27 | Early man in his imperfectly organised society say in the animal world a distinct order , which was predetermined , changeless and superior and which , therefore implied a superhuman power . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |