Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] say that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I 'm not , but I 'm saying that some people probably have a natural , a natural teaching ability . |
| 2 | alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I |
| 3 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 4 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 5 | ‘ We are saying that higher education is on the point of collapse , and unless something very radical is done to repair that damage we are going to have a completely different type of education system in the future , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We are saying that some populations ( i.e. sexual ones ) evolve faster than others , and hence will survive when others go extinct . |
| 7 | We are saying that this applicant does not do that |
| 8 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They are saying that such information will only realise its value if it is available to the person , at the point , at the time where the strategic decision to act upon that information can best be made . |
| 11 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 12 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 13 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |
| 14 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
| 15 | If it is said that that word is capable of a neutral meaning , my answer is that , in order to read section 3(1) harmoniously with section 1(1) in its natural sense , ‘ assumption ’ must receive a unilateral meaning . |
| 16 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 17 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 18 | Although reported second-hand , it is said that one chap who 's $5,000 in the red and 90 days behind with payments got a call from the card company . |
| 19 | It is said that two Feltham type cars , cut off from Telford Avenue depôt , had to spend a night in Thornton Heath depôt . |
| 20 | Now the first day is more for dealers than debutantes : it is said that 10 pictures are sold every minute . |
| 21 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
| 22 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 23 | It is said that some crime syndicates have collected so many paintings that they have set up their own galleries . |
| 24 | It is said that this ghost still beats his eerie tattoo during times of war . |
| 25 | It is said that this course was wholly unnecessary . |
| 26 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 27 | It is said that more pigs are reared there than there are people in the entire country . |
| 28 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
| 29 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 30 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |