Example sentences of "[be] say [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a lot to say Mr Chairman , I think it 's all been said one way or the other . |
| 2 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 3 | It 's already been said this morning they are entitled to a voice and therefore we need to retain er , a separate trade union membership . |
| 4 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 5 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 6 | AS NEWLY-formed TV AM said Good Morning Britain , those likely lads Clement and Le Frenais waved goodbye to Blighty , and threw a disparate gang of regional archetype brickies together in Dusseldorf for good-humoured , working class comic-drama on-site . |
| 7 | They 're saying one thing for one sex and one for the other . ’ |
| 8 | I think they 're saying one thing , and they do something else . |
| 9 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 10 | But if you 've got er four hundred and eighty million pounds missing and you 're saying that pension fund managers should er pay a third of it and this is a pay as you go scheme rather than a funded scheme of compensation , how many pension fund managers do you think would be able to cough up their third ? |
| 11 | Oh so , over twenty nine years you 're saying that food was controlling your life , in a way ? |
| 12 | So you s you s you 're saying so you 're saying some kind of actual |
| 13 | Du n no why they 're saying this bit . |
| 14 | Oh you ca n't you , you , that 's what we we 're saying this morning |
| 15 | We are saying that government and employers — the State owes us a living . |
| 16 | But if if if if you are saying that calculation of housing provision includes conversions , I 'm somewhat some guidance on how much provision will have to made from new built sites , and somebody 's going to have to make an intelligent assumption about how much is coming forward from conversions . |
| 17 | That could be dangerous , like people are saying heavy metal music might make people wan na go out and kill others … ‘ |
| 18 | A lot of people are saying this morning , that er , the existing licence fee of eighty three quid is far too high , given that we er get repeats from the B B C for most of the summer . |
| 19 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 20 | Leonard has again been saying this week that this is likely to be his final contest . |
| 21 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 22 | It could be said that scripture 's view of the Devil and the evil spirits is mythological . |
| 23 | I am satisfied that it can not be said that section 6(2) is unworkable if the words of that provision are given their wide general meaning . |
| 24 | But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire . |
| 25 | But I 'm not I 'm not in the frame of mind to be saying this kid was off for a week with flu then and was off |
| 26 | I , I what I 'm saying is I 'm saying that unemployment as a , as a as a condition , |
| 27 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
| 28 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 29 | They were saying one road 's closed . |
| 30 | ‘ Some people were saying one thing , the chairman was telling me another . |