Example sentences of "[be] say [that] this [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’ |
| 2 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 3 | They wilt readily learn to distinguish light from dark and there is some evidence that they can also distinguish patterns and colours , although it must be said that this capacity is extremely limited compared with the normal capacities of the animals concerned ( Pasik and Pasik 1982 ) . |
| 4 | Whilst owing his debt to Lorca , it has to be said that this volume is markedly conservative . |
| 5 | However , it must be said that this paper is not an attempt to cast management in an entirely negative light and then to oppose that with an equally ‘ rosy ’ view of professionalism — with the implication that management must recede and that professionalism should advance . |
| 6 | It is said that this course was wholly unnecessary . |
| 7 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |