Example sentences of "[be] say [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 2 | It 's also been said that Prince , who writes songs for anyone and everyone from Sheena Easton to The Bangles , has written a song specifically for her called ‘ Do Me Baby ’ . |
| 3 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 4 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 5 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 6 | It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal . |
| 7 | It has been said that Peter 's military and naval staff headquarters were almost Scottish institutions . |
| 8 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 9 | It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers . |
| 10 | It has been said that Ian McShane has a footballer 's haircut , but in fact what he now has is a football manager 's haircut . |
| 11 | It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor . |
| 12 | It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job . |
| 13 | It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach . |
| 14 | It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts . |
| 15 | IT HAS been said that Glasgow only really welcomes an incomer if they have built a ship . |
| 16 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 17 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 18 | Erm ooh wait a minute we 're saying , we 're saying than Edmund are n't we ? |
| 19 | two thousand whatever , not you 're saying that parents subsidize that , you know |
| 20 | Yo you 're saying that Newark is actually closed , do n't go to Newark because er of the roadworks , it 's er it 's closed . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're saying that rape is the only way I 'm going to make you mine ? ’ he questioned , and , to make her treacherous body betray her , he planted a spine-thrilling kiss on the side of her throat . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're saying that Riddle was gagged and bound , than put into the Wheel while he was still alive — a real Scapegoat . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're saying that Stella , Jean and the manager 's wife are necessary evils who are merely tolerated for their usefulness ? |
| 24 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 25 | You 're saying that Margaret Thatcher , Lady Margaret Thatcher , wife of Sir Dennis , Baronet , is a great believer in the classless society ? |
| 26 | ‘ You 're saying that Newley worked a double-cross ? ’ |
| 27 | You 're saying that Tom and old Maggie Sullivan and I cut his throat for him ? ’ |
| 28 | So the thing you 're saying you 're saying that people |
| 29 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 30 | Fabia echoed , and hoped as light dawned on her that she had got it right , ‘ You 're saying that Mr Gajdusek is going to Prague ? ’ |