Example sentences of "is say [that] [det] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is said that more pigs are reared there than there are people in the entire country . |
| 3 | It is said that this course was wholly unnecessary . |
| 4 | What concerns me is that , in effect , the Minister is saying that all campaigns are condemned before they begin . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | That is to say that some changes are believed to arise internally within the system and are motivated by system-internal factors , whereas others are said to arise from the influence of neighbouring languages or dialects . |
| 7 | The most popular way to regard the cases is to say that both groups are equally valid and that differences turn on the legislative instrument . |