Example sentences of "[pron] [be] say that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 2 | Which is to say that defences are being erected to protect the integrity of Western culture , of the Western idea . |
| 3 | Which is to say that directions are better than sentences . |
| 4 | To remedy this , he suggests that arts education must be shown to be " vocational " , which is to say that arts should be shown to provide education for living , acting , doing , knowing , thinking , and enjoying . |
| 5 | But you are saying that hospitals must pay more attention to the justification of , for performing an X-ray ? |
| 6 | two thousand whatever , not you 're saying that parents subsidize that , you know |
| 7 | Is he aware that the chair of the local British Medical Association branch in Calderdale recently publicly rebuked local Tories who were saying that GPs wanted to become fund holders ? |
| 8 | But earlier you were saying that women who come to Oxford are tough cookies . |
| 9 | In reality , a well-conceived general course may be just as coherent as a narrower one ; after all , the study of classics traditionally involves two languages and three disciplines and who is to say that classics is not both general and coherent ? |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 12 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 13 | It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts . |
| 14 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 15 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 16 | It is said that vegetarians ( who do not eat meat or fish ) are healthier and live longer than meat-eaters . |
| 17 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 18 | It is said that Nos. 25 and 34 were taken out of service and loaned to the War Office for use as Searchlight cars . |
| 19 | It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound . |
| 20 | It is said that lords and ladies and royalty were entertained here , and known that George Fox , the founder of the Quakers , preached here . |
| 21 | Next , it is said that lawyers and judges are not familiar with Parliamentary procedures and will therefore have difficulty in giving proper weight to the Parliamentary materials . |
| 22 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 23 | It is said that men mature as they grow older like a good red wine , but that a woman 's beauty fades with age . |
| 24 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 25 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 26 | This may be why it is said that couples who pray together , stay together . |
| 27 | It is said that tunnels once used by escapers from the castle still exist beneath the grounds . |
| 28 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 29 | Often the contents of a reply are non-committal ; it is said that points made by a committee are noted or that certain matters will be kept under review . |
| 30 | It is said that yaks ' milk is sometimes used and in Italy buffalos ' milk is made into cheese . |