Example sentences of "[adj] say that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that any serious promise should count , whilst others insist that there should be an intention to enter legal relations ; meanwhile other theorists prefer the language of agreement and consent to that of promises and intention . |
| 2 | I am sad to say that some Conservative Members and one or two of my hon. Friends seem to have a little Englander mentality . |
| 3 | Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’ |
| 4 | Two hundred thousand to improve the provision for extra pupils , here again er lot 's come out of er , the , the , but er ministers wax eloquent about what we should er do about this mounting problem of erm , of er truancy exclusion , discipline in general , erm , they tell us what to do , they tell us , er we must have er referral units and what have you , but then dont' give us any funds to do the job , but I 'm glad to say that all three party agreement that er that two hundred thousand or so , it to improve the er the , the service for extra pupils . |
| 5 | A report on Voice of Vietnam radio on March 4 said that some local party congresses had " proceeded in a cursory and unsatisfactory fashion " , while elsewhere " some issues generated contrasting views and suggestions " . |
| 6 | So how good to say that this new Chopin disc reveals a more composed and mature Gavrilov , someone able to storm high heaven , if necessary , without loss of refinement , someone in fact acutely aware that Polish passion in Chopin was counterbalanced with Gallic finesse . |
| 7 | Commenting on the progress of the latest round of negotiations , the Middle East Economic Digest of May 8 said that all four sets of talks had finished procedural details and " begun to tackle the real issues " . |
| 8 | Surprisingly perhaps , while blatantly sexist material in the form of caricatures is not common , and usually used with critical intention , it is fair to say that many social studies texts produced for examination classes frequently neglected women , though there were some exceptions . |
| 9 | It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , despite the earnest evangelical endeavours it is probably true to say that many bourgeois groups had little direct interest in working-class morality , as long as work relationships were secured . |
| 11 | It is still true to say that many Continental philosophers would hardly be recognised as such by their English-speaking contemporaries . |
| 12 | It is probably true to say that these new sensations were at first quite undetected , as such , by himself . |
| 13 | Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution . |
| 14 | If B is threatened with a tort it is , of course , equally true that he may bring an action for damages if the tort is committed or bring an action for a quia timet injunction first , but , especially where the threat is of violence , it is perhaps less realistic to say that these legal remedies afford him adequate protection against the consequences of resistance . |