Example sentences of "thing to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea that people with no professional expertise in education could go into schools and have relevant things to say about the teaching methodology seems patent nonsense . ’ |
| 2 | If film and theatre have found new things to say on the subject , literature is still relatively dumbstruck . |
| 3 | Erm , maybe that would be the more fair thing to say at the end of the day . |
| 4 | There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary . |
| 5 | The first thing to say about the detective , him or her , is that he or she need not be a professional . |
| 6 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 7 | She has only one main thing to say in the book and that is : |