Example sentences of "[pron] [be] say that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords I I 'm to say that this is of course erm a very controversial area and it is quite frank that it should be controversial too . |
| 2 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're saying that this crazed man fitted the picture ? ’ |
| 4 | You 're saying that this is not necessarily the case . |
| 5 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 6 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 7 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 8 | We are saying that this applicant does not do that |
| 9 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 10 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 11 | It is said that this ghost still beats his eerie tattoo during times of war . |
| 12 | It is said that this stimulates circulation and the flow of the lymphatic fluid , eases the nervous system , helps to release toxins and tensions from the muscles and stimulates the hormonal system . |
| 13 | ( Lewis , 1973 , p. 33 ; Stalnaker , 1975 , p. 173 ) It is said that this proves the failure of transitivity — the three statements are Unexceptionable and the third does not follow from the first two . |
| 14 | Firstly , it is said that this is not a case in which interim relief is appropriate or possible at all . |
| 15 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 16 | It is said that this course was wholly unnecessary . |
| 17 | It is said that this was one principal factor behind the setting up of a number of Court of Session rules setting out expedited procedures back in 1988 . |
| 18 | It was said that this made the assaults particularly dreadful . |
| 19 | When he appeared before the magistrate at lowly Clerkenwell , charged with ‘ willfully ringing several door bells and knocking at the doors in Upper Street , Islington , without lawful excuse ’ it was said that this kind of mischief — like the Cremorne Gardens affray — was a ‘ frequent occurrence ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ It was said that this was the place where the tide came in first and went out last , but this recession has barely affected us so far ’ , announces Richard Needham , minister of state for Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |