Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] say that [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | two thousand whatever , not you 're saying that parents subsidize that , you know |
| 2 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 3 | It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts . |
| 4 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 5 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 6 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 7 | It is said that men mature as they grow older like a good red wine , but that a woman 's beauty fades with age . |
| 8 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 9 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 10 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 11 | Often the contents of a reply are non-committal ; it is said that points made by a committee are noted or that certain matters will be kept under review . |
| 12 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 13 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 14 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 15 | In November 1898 it was said that effigies representing ‘ Hooliganism ’ were burned on Guy Fawkes Night , although the new folk devil was destined for even more global notoriety . |