Example sentences of "[det] [pron] say [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some who say that we should involve peacekeeping forces right away . |
| 2 | There are some who say that we should immediately recognise Croatia and Slovenia because they have passed a test in respect of self-standing and self-sustenance . |
| 3 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 4 | That 's what I said to that Ann , be able to get something on that somebody says that they have n't said it and be able to play it back to them . |
| 5 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 6 | Erm that had er most economic histor historians agree that between nineteen fifty two , nineteen fifty fifty two there was a healthy recovery and then a slackening off and that erm another consequence of land reform was to decrease the output marketed by peasants and this was because , as we mentioned earlier , the peasants have a high propensity to consume and lower marketing land was rich peasants erm and that one says that there was a new air reported then in the countryside unleashing unprecedented wave of productive enthusiasm , initiative and creativeness but there was also evidence of instability and uncertainty which hindered erm the advance of erm productiv improving productivity and investment . |
| 7 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 8 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 9 | He feels that he should have heeded those who said that political relations between state and industry in France , and between France and the Third World , precluded the autonomous international centre he had envisaged . |
| 10 | Authorities as a whole divided themselves clearly into three groups ( see Table 19 ) : firstly , those who said that one person or a small specified group allocated the equivalent of a quarter of their time to training , secondly , those authorities who estimated a smaller amount of one person 's time ( normally 10–15% and most commonly Deputy or Assistant Chiefs ) and thirdly , those allocating largely nominal ( or no responsibility ) for training . |
| 11 | There were those who said that , rather than Miss Mack 's solicitor , he was the Fiancé Who Never Quite Made It Because Of Some Unexplained Difficulty — but this was pure speculation . |
| 12 | Arguing against those who said that women could not be ordained , the Anglican theologian of the last generation Leonard Hodgson comments that to say ‘ that a woman is incapable of receiving the priestly or episcopal character involves saying that her sexual differentiation carries with it a deficiency in spiritual receptivity and power ’ . |
| 13 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 14 | Single girls of good family were not supposed to know of such things , but Sally-Anne , if not an active suffragette , knew about Miss Annie Besant , and those who said that women should not be tied to endless childbearing and that there were practical ways of avoiding it . |
| 15 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 16 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |
| 17 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 18 | The Social Democrat , Lord Kennet , the first opponent of research to speak , said : ‘ Those who say that this full-stop-sized mini-blob is not a human being must answer which part of the question they object to : human or being ? |
| 19 | Indeed , I can say I am in agreement with those who say that the ability to draw up a good staff plan is the cornerstone of any decent butler 's skills . |
| 20 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 21 | There are those who say that for man to feel pain he must have certain parts of his brain intact such as the spinothalamic tract or the limbic system or the cingulate gyrus etc . |
| 22 | While other workers have published careful studies showing modest , often transitory , benefits of training for IQ , Heber 's projects stood as a beacon of hope for dramatic and lasting benefits , and also as the defence against those who say that IQ has proved disappointingly hard to budge . |
| 23 | To prove wrong those who say that any dieter will have put back the weight ( and more ) 12 months after losing it — 12 months on and 18 lbs ( 8.2 kg ) down , I 'm still a ‘ Hip and Thigh ’ fan . |
| 24 | But there are those who say that , if the Tories are serious , there is an easier way to take more account of what Scots want — one that might be less dramatic than a limited constitutional concession but probably more effective . |
| 25 | All of which confuses those who say that Europe 's prime responsibility is stop Serbian expansion . |
| 26 | Even this is inadequate , but I want to forestall the objections ( because I agree with them ) of those who say that Wages for Housework simply means providing married men with state-paid servants … an argument which the Wages for |
| 27 | ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’ |
| 28 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 29 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |
| 30 | He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained . |