Example sentences of "[conj] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was n't going to tell that fear to anyone though ; she was n't having them prying or saying that Dorothy ought to be glad of a new brother or sister .
2 There is a report on CEEFAX that say that Wilko has been approached by Lazio re : the sale of one fat Geordie !
3 There is no law that says that life must be difficult .
4 There 's no law that says that children should preferably be with their mothers .
5 Moreover , although the Rules sprang from this conflict , they did not in terms go further than saying that persons in custody should not be questioned without first being cautioned .
6 Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today .
7 So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ?
8 Yes I I do n't really want to respond to that other than to say that Bond End is d it 's still an extremely important consideration , it 's in the conservation area , it 's an important part of Knaresborough and it was obviously something that members had in mind when they they made their decision on on the relative merits .
9 This was one that said that member states might use ‘ all necessary means ’ ( meaning force ) to restore peace and security in the Gulf .
10 I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two .
11 And I think there was a local radio article er a couple of days ago that said that car alarms do not work any more house alarms do providing you 've got good neighbours to respond to it .
12 Except to say that women 's entry into education generally was conceded reluctantly and belatedly a hundred or so years ago , long after the rules had been established and the parameters had been set .
13 For Sparc , the weaknesses listed were not significant , except to say that Sparc is unlikely to support Windows NT .
14 I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup .
15 I refer to this significant dispute in passing , without engaging in it , except to say that feminists are divided on whether they want to establish a countercanon or extend the existing one .
16 Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food .
17 Moreover , they regard the A afarensis toes as comparatively short and say that Stern and Susman have been selective in the toe bones they analysed , concentrating on those from the largest specimen .
18 No good asking Olga Stych ; she 'd just stick her nose in the air and say that Boyd was doing very well .
19 Emily had been able to look them straight in the eye even then and say that Nan would cause no trouble .
20 Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident .
21 Large companies are facing price increases averaging 20 p.c. this year and say that efforts to cushion the rises through a recent Nuclear Electric auction were a flop .
22 You could go further , and say that New York is a jungle .
23 So much is clear ; can we go further , and say that Otto himself went to Rome to be crowned in order to complete his pilgrimage in Charlemagne 's footsteps , that this was his chief motive ?
24 Two Californian importers have already ordered 800 Wisdom systems by February 1992 and say that orders for the following year could be 10 times greater .
25 I will go further , and say that crime itself has to be viewed from the same aspect of society as a balance — a balance that can be lost , like the physiological or chemical balance in an organism , in which cases the organism is destroyed , but a balance which is always there , whether being gained , maintained or lost .
26 Ferguson , for his part , can now look any supporter of his club in the eye and say that Gough having to commit the foul that debarred him from a Cup-tie verified the youngster 's ability to put an awkward pre-match situation out of his mind and play in a determined way that suggested his temperament was on the mend .
27 Some are inclined to shrug their shoulders and say that Thailand , like an unruly adolescent , is just ‘ going through a phase ’ .
28 We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang .
29 The NRA admits that there are no easy solutions to the problem , and says that cases need to be looked at individually , but agrees that ways have to be found of reducing phosphate levels in the water .
30 Treitel describes such contracts as illegal and contrary to public policy and says that restraint of trade clauses are prima facie void .
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