Example sentences of "[noun] have to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICL has to say , if asked , that the way out of their present crisis is to have started 10 years ago — 10 years that by steady attrition rather than any headline-grabbing lay-offs have seen ICL 's workforce decline to 26,000 — from 31,000 only four years ago . |
| 2 | The distinction between what a writer has to say , and how it is presented to the reader , underlies one of the earliest and most persistent concepts of style:that of style as the " dress of thought " . |
| 3 | In the above example , the rheme is : provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky , which is what the writer has to say about Ptolemy 's model . |
| 4 | She will listen to what each side has to say before deciding who to support on April 9 , although she says she is not keen on any of the three party leaders and preferred Margaret Thatcher to John Major . |
| 5 | What the Middle English poet has to say , in essence , is that in the war between God and Satan for men 's souls , there may perhaps be neutrals . |
| 6 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 7 | It is surely they who have to determine relevance in this case , they who have to be convinced that what research has to say has a bearing on what they do . |
| 8 | Indeed , by failing to acknowledge what applied research has to say on this matter , the Griffiths report proceeds from a false premise ( that care by the community — in its present form — is desirable and will continue ) to a false conclusion ( that publicly provided services can be increasingly restricted to an enabling and facilitating role ) . |
| 9 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 10 | What local ‘ MPs and candidates had to say on the day the election date was named : |
| 11 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 12 | We heard what the Leader of the Opposition had to say about that . |
| 13 | Oh some marvellous performances in it , but really it was Joan Littlewood 's intrinsic concept which was miraculous really , that 's and really I do n't know whether the movie lost a lot as against the play — I think it lost something — the important thing was that millions of people who would never have seen it , had it remained purely as a theatre production , did see what Joan Littlewood had to say , saw her perceptions , her wit , her humanity , and therefore I think it was well worth making . |
| 14 | But Ridley was cordial and interested in what Branson had to say . |
| 15 | The fact remains that while Mossad is the honoured guest of the American government in Washington , especially at election time , the entire UN General Assembly had to be air-lifted to Geneva to hear what Arafat had to say . |
| 16 | The first condition used a visual-judgement task in which subjects had to say whether a word such as " bury " looked like any of the words in the following sentence : Yesterday the grand jury adjourned . |
| 17 | Hospitals and community units have to say exactly what they can do in a year , and districts and GPs can specify the quality criteria and kinds of service they want . |
| 18 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 19 | Biographical details are not relevant to what the Cloud-author and Walter Hilton have to say , and about Julian we know only those circumstances which immediately impinge on her visionary experience . |
| 20 | But what does team manager Glenn Hoddle have to say ? |
| 21 | The Inspectorate 's observation is therefore little more than a truism , and is merely typical of the kind of thing inspectors have to say , and always have said , in their reports . |
| 22 | What do you think to erm what erm you 've just heard the North Yorkshire Euro MP Edward have to say there about his erm keenness to see a public inquiry ? |
| 23 | At this point we must look at what the loan and muster books have to say , although the examples cover a more limited range . |
| 24 | One that forces you to listen to what this 18-year-old has to say next . |
| 25 | Before investigating further what Lyons has to say about literacy , then , it is important to analyse what he means by ‘ objectivity ’ and what force arguments about it have within his own discipline . |
| 26 | And yet , all Glenny has to say about the army 's role in the present , Bosnian war is that they are ‘ genuinely confused ’ , ‘ waverers ’ pushed by Muslim and Croat provocations into the clutches of ‘ unashamed Serb nationalists ’ . |
| 27 | The statutory duty to consult a trade union about redundancies is well known , but both employers and those directly affected tend to be less familiar with what the law has to say about the need for consultation with affected individuals . |
| 28 | People living and working in Lothian , visitors , those wishing to invest in the area , and those providing services , will all be interested in what the Plan has to say . |
| 29 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll read you what the blighter has to say for himself … ’ |