Example sentences of "[adj] say that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that Linear A is related to the Phoenician and Palestinian languages , and that the texts contain lists of people and quantities of produce ; but it would be premature to assume this . |
| 2 | Some say that this is still a ‘ jobless ’ recovery ; or at least , as Dick Gephardt , the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives , argued on May 11th , a recovery with no good jobs . |
| 3 | Some say that any serious promise should count , whilst others insist that there should be an intention to enter legal relations ; meanwhile other theorists prefer the language of agreement and consent to that of promises and intention . |
| 4 | Some say that more people died that year than during the rebellion 10 years before . |
| 5 | And some say that tight SEC rules on shareholders ' freedom to talk to one another , and to their company , hinder good corporate governance . |
| 6 | Verse 2 says that 400,000 footmen " that drew the sword " assembled . |
| 7 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 8 | A well-known example is ‘ controversy ’ , which is pronounced by some speakers as and by others as ; it would be quite wrong to say that one version was correct and one incorrect . |
| 9 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 10 | This said that Soviet historians had recently discovered documents revealing that in April-May 1940 all but 394 inmates of the three camps had been turned over to NKVD administrations in Smolensk , Voroshilovgrad and Kalinin , and had been " never again mentioned in NKVD statistical accounts " . |
| 11 | But , I am afraid to say that this month 's Ultimate Brandy Snap , filled with gooseberry fool ( page 124 ) , is best served either on its own , or with a small tot of brandy . |
| 12 | Afterwards the general meeting was disappointed and some said that this commission was unrepresentative of the Churches and ought to be disregarded . |
| 13 | A Ukrainian Defence Ministry statement of Jan. 2 said that all troops in Ukraine , except strategic nuclear forces , were directly subordinate to the Ukrainian President . |
| 14 | Reports on Aug. 2 said that hundreds of people were killed after an explosion at an arms depot in Kabul thought to have been triggered by rockets fired by mujaheddin . |
| 15 | Reports on Jan. 30 said that two military judges in Padua examining the legality of " Gladio " had , in an interim indictment , charged the organization with " possible acts of terrorism " and claimed that it had maintained close links with the fascist " Marine Star " established after the Second World War . |
| 16 | A Soviet Foreign Ministry statement of Nov. 30 said that such an action would set a " dangerous international precedent " . |
| 17 | Some official sources on June 30 said that one gunman had been killed in the exchange of fire but that a second was under interrogation . |
| 18 | A joint CRN-CCAOD communiqué broadcast on March 30 said that free elections at municipal , legislative and presidential level would be held before Jan. 1 , 1992 , and that the army would return to barracks on Jan. 20 . |
| 19 | At the same time , it is hardly adequate to say that higher education is concerned only with reproducing inequality ; greater access to higher education has resulted in a growing number of women obtaining degrees and entering the professions . |
| 20 | The Guardian of Feb. 12 said that Kuwaiti refugees arriving in al-Ruweishid , Jordan , had confirmed an outbreak of cholera and worsening food shortages . |
| 21 | But also more importantly within that says that these , The siting of development is essentially something to be decided locally . |
| 22 | The Japanese say that these fish are five-coloured , the hues being red , white , black , dark and light blue . |
| 23 | The second says that individual non-observation sentences can not be verified or falsified on their own . |
| 24 | I am delighted to say that both previous Prime Ministers under whom I served are avid and enthusiastic collectors of that porcelain . |
| 25 | The OECD in its report published in July 1991 said that economic growth had slowed in 1990 to 3.5 per cent compared with growth of 4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 26 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 27 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 28 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is not too much to say that this is probably the single thing that " everyone know about Athenian democracy . |
| 30 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |