Example sentences of "saying [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | nor reproduc duc tu tu tology , but what I am saying is that secrets store up trouble , and when doctors are |
| 2 | What they 're saying is that Colin was purely administration . |
| 3 | What I am saying is that Mills was one of the MI6 officers with responsibility for WIN . |
| 4 | ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’ |
| 5 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 6 | What I 'm saying is that Iraq is an independent state , an independent sovereign state , and whoever attacks Iraq to change the government or to destroy Iraq , then they should expect that Iraq is not going to be an easy bite to swallow . |
| 7 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 8 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 9 | What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street . |
| 10 | No I 'm not ignoring them but what I 'm saying is that problems that people are genuinely concerned about of dust or noise are unlikely to have an impact at a distance of two miles . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 12 | I mean effectively what you 're saying is that York has got a capacity for about another three thousand three hundred dwellings ? |
| 13 | But what you 're saying is that ideas , if acted upon , do the opposite . |