Example sentences of "to say [conj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice it to say that at the point of commissioning it is a good idea to know which you are planting ! |
| 2 | Out of 10 who said their style was 9,9 at the beginning of the week , only one is likely to be able to say that at the end , affirms Penfold with relish . |
| 3 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 4 | At the second appeal Murphy 's conviction was quashed , a new witness coming forward to say that at the time of the murder in Luton he had seen Murphy in a London street . |
| 5 | And he revealed : ‘ A deal was agreed with Frank Williams before that race in front of a witness and I have to say that at the time I felt very , good about racing again with Williams in 1993 . |
| 6 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 7 | You , you , you 're right to say that on the whole there , the managerial farms were in , in the north , although there w there was clearly some in the south |
| 8 | I 'll go on to say that on the question of progressive migration restraint , I do n't think anybody round this table is suggesting otherwise . |
| 9 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 10 | It is probably more accurate to say that as a package the new employment system used traditional symbols to make the unfamiliar appear customary . |
| 11 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 12 | Well I have to say that as a result of last night 's session I have a much healthier view of Hydro Electric and I do so would I have got that from the programme ? |
| 13 | The hare , either out of forgetfulness or malice , distorted the message to say that as the Moon rose and died away so Man should die and rise no more . |
| 14 | I 've often wanted to say that to a man , go on , take all of me , why not ? |
| 15 | The worst option , leaked in a rather conspiratorial manner prior to publication , and which would have left Wales with two short stubs of main line , was immediately rejected by the Government , as if to say that to the public that now there was nothing more to worry about . |
| 16 | Although Granville probably realized the damaging implications of the fact that the Government had asked for the office designs without owning or having authority to acquire the land for them , he then went on to say that with the block plan , Parliament could choose : |
| 17 | It is fair to say that during the day and a half of discussions in June 1993 alarm was expressed at the difficulties posed by the future of the historian 's resource . |
| 18 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 19 | I never thought I 'd live to say that about a film from the BFI . |
| 20 | It is fair to say that by the time of the establishment of OEEC progress in Benelux had more or less ground to a halt . |
| 21 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 22 | While a small number of individuals in Elizabethan England stood outside this Calvinist consensus , as Nicholas Tyacke has commented : ‘ it is not an exaggeration to say that by the end of the sixteenth century the Church of England was largely Calvinist in doctrine . ’ |
| 23 | I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower . |
| 24 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 25 | On the other hand , the Court was at pains to say that in a world of partial harmonisation the employee was free to agree with the transferee any changes he might have agreed with the transferor ( point 16 ) |
| 26 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 27 | I was going to say that in a lot of these countries the logging concessions are owned by government ministers and the elite . |
| 28 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 29 | Without wanting to appear cynical , it 's pretty safe to say that in the run up to elections , one expects the odd vote-catching ruse from politicians . |
| 30 | I accept the need to counter the myth that only a biological mother can adequately care for a child , but to say that in the interests of women 's liberation we will pay anyone except the child 's mother to look after it seems to be going a little far in the opposite direction ! |