Example sentences of "[pers pn] say that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I know if I say that Notes are really important Alright .
2 When I say that parents will receive this information , I must make it clear that it will not be available on application to those parents who realise that they can obtain it .
3 When introducing the notion of mental holism earlier , I said that thoughts must have reference and I implied that only holistic systems could achieve this reference .
4 Your Royal Highness , it is , it is , it is interesting that when I attended the Annual General Meeting last year of the Boats Organization , the fact that I said that yachtsmen was a Con Conservation Body as well surprised them and since that time we have having collaboration with them er more and more and this is to be welcomed because we all want to sail in nice surroundings .
5 In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles .
6 I said that owls could n't run very fast and so they had to fly to catch mice , which could run fast .
7 I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that .
8 I said that schools in my constituency are improving substantially under LMS .
9 Can I say that sub-committees , as I understand it , report to main committees ?
10 Well you say that women take care of the children ninety two per cent of the time .
11 If you say that children are completely non-rational then you have to account for the fact that they become rational , and to do that it appears from these examples that you have to assume that they already are .
12 If you say that children have got the right to know their father does that extend to the abuser and the rapist ?
13 She says that girls think that science is for boys .
14 She says that warnings should have been given as soon as the terrorists made their threats .
15 Are you , you saying that things could get worse now that erm communism is gone and is going to become even more impoverished .
16 That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population .
17 She said that doctors had offered to participate in developing the programme but had been told they were not needed .
18 ‘ And you say she said that eagles of Callanish carry a burden and that for some it is hard … ’ and her voice drifted into a distance .
19 She said that patients had been evacuated to an upper floor .
20 She said that babies born in a caul were born to great fame or great misfortune , certainly something special .
21 If you said that Liveseys ' do twenty per cent of the mixing and all of the marketing , you would get an approximate idea . ’
22 Would you say that managers tend to lose sight of labour relations and concentrate on the market ?
23 Would you say that things have changed a great deal from the days when you finished your drama school training at Central in 1966 ?
24 These people [ the Brazilian Indians ] are wild [ sauvage ] in the same way as we say that fruits are wild , when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way … they are still very close to their original simplicity … they are still governed by natural laws and very little corrupted by our own " .1
25 In jargon , we say that effects depend on causes continuously .
26 This example demonstrates what we mean when we say that choices are never totally ‘ free ’ but are influenced in complex ways by the socialisation process and by practical constraints .
27 A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law .
28 If we say that dinosaurs grew large because they were in pursuit of the advantage of heat conservation , we are not implying that species engineered their own destiny , with the effect predetermining the cause .
29 If we say that children can not receive communion , we 'll als als ought also to s ask question about whether infants should be baptised .
30 When we say that individuals have a right to be protected against assault , we do not mean that this protection must be achieved through some particular scheme we already have in mind .
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