Example sentences of "[adj] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some say that gleams of a remoter world |
| 2 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 3 | And some say that Brendan Behan never wrote the song ‘ Old Triangle ’ , but learned it off another inmate at Mountjoy and claimed it as his own . ’ |
| 4 | And some say that Jesus himself visited Glastonbury , after his resurrection , living for a while in a house where Glastonbury Abbey now stands . |
| 5 | Some say that ignorance of the law is no excuse , since any man can say that he did not know , and gain exception thereby . |
| 6 | As I have already said , some say that planning is just not possible . |
| 7 | Some say that Bryan , the photographer ( who many believe was Daniel Angeli ) and I were in league and that a deal was struck whereby Bryan would kiss Fergie , the snapper would take the pictures , I would provide publicity . |
| 8 | Some say a new era of enlightenment is around the corner , some say that consciousness is quietly entering the mainstream , while others see a grim world of confusion and chaos ( not chaos theory but just plain chaos ) . |
| 9 | Some say that worship means the giving of our lives to Christ , presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice to God which is our spiritual worship ( Romans 12:1 ) , and that expressing praise is relatively unimportant . |
| 10 | Some philosophers deny the possibility of any fundamental conflict between justice and fairness because they believe that one of these virtues in the end derives from the other : Some say that justice has no meaning apart from fairness , that in politics , as in roulette , whatever happens through fair procedures is just . |
| 11 | There is an arrow straight to absentee behaviour ; this says that women are more likely to be absent from work than men , regardless of the kind of job they are in . |
| 12 | None of this says that software theft should be made legitimate . |
| 13 | This says that agents use all the available information to forecast the future spot rate ; that is , they form rational expectations of the future exchange rate . |
| 14 | Like the old saying that success has many fathers , but failure has none , nobody is prepared to claim parenthood of the old rating system . |
| 15 | We can now ask how far it is sensible to say that genes ‘ program ’ or ‘ control ’ development . |
| 16 | In his view , it is fallacious to say that Unix costs less per number of users than mainframes because no-one has ever put a large number of users on Unix boxes . |
| 17 | Briefly , if it is possible to interpret ( Ex ) Fx substitutionally as well as referentially , then it wo n't be superfluous to say that F 's actually exist , for on a substitutional interpretation they need not do so . |
| 18 | Some said that Ryan had made a mistake in failing to get everything ready in the block before he sent Sawyer off . |
| 19 | Another said that Russell had pulled a brick from out of the passage wall and hit him with it . |
| 20 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that Mubarak had sent a personal envoy to hold talks with Kadhafi . |
| 21 | Reports on July 30 said that France had indicated its support for a partial easing of sanctions against Iraq after the UN sanctions committee failed on July 24 unanimously to agree to an Iraqi request to sell oil worth US$2,400 million to buy food and medicines . |
| 22 | Reports on Nov. 12 said that US officials had confirmed that the final percentage of Warsaw Pact weapons cuts would have been higher had it not been for the removal of large numbers of Soviet tanks and other heavy arms across the Ural Mountains to areas where they were not covered by the Treaty provisions . |
| 23 | A further letter dated 9th July 1991 says that orders have been placed with your Direct Labour Organisation to carry out this work . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Fife , Central says that TECs have been set up ’ at breakneck speed with scant regard to the complex and interrelated problems underpinning Britain 's skills crisis . ’ |
| 25 | Bryson House director Peter McLachlan said : ‘ I am delighted to say that Belfast City Council has approved the initial planning stage for the watersports centre . |
| 26 | The BBC reissue contained very poor transfers , but I 'm delighted to say that thanks to good engineering work by David Lennick on Music and Arts 's new disc we can now enjoy these 1935 performances in acceptable sound . |
| 27 | Many seem to be content to say that fashions change and that 's that . |
| 28 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 29 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 30 | You see , I 'm sad to say that Sidney never came back . |