Example sentences of "[pron] says that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’ |
| 2 | I says that any subset of positive integers which contains 1 and which contains a + 1 whenever it contains a is precisely the set of all positive integers . |
| 3 | This is the general moral theory first systematically expounded by Jeremy Bentham ( an important figure in penal thought and history ) which says that moral actions are those which produce ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ of people . |
| 4 | If the answer is yes , is that to be taken as part of Rudduck 's message which says that small scale studies are not trivial if they nevertheless provide excitement , confidence and insight ? |
| 5 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 6 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 7 | to standing or order nineteen fifty four about new or additional expenditure which says that any proposal which involves new or additional expenditure etcetera must be in the hands of commissioners and printed in proper form . |
| 8 | The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’ |
| 9 | She says that fifty percent of her trade is from passing traffic . |
| 10 | She says that one reason for her not going out is that upstairs there are about one thousand people assaulting children . |
| 11 | She says that flat paintings hung on walls are outmoded . |
| 12 | He is incredulous when she says that some people might think better of Jason for confessing his fear . |
| 13 | She says that some people are narrow minded . |
| 14 | She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas . |
| 15 | He is the mathematician who says that intelligent life in the Universe does not exist , because if it did we would be knee deep in space probes by now . |
| 16 | He says that certain morphine like substances are released from the brain during acupuncture . |
| 17 | He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions . |
| 18 | He says that bored youngsters turn to crime — joy riding cars etc . |
| 19 | The hon. Lady selects the wrong argument on which to call Professor Glennerster as witness , because he says that that argument is muddled . |
| 20 | He says that Saudi culture is different from ours . |
| 21 | Now he says that arresting drug barons is a waste of time , since their cousins , godsons or even more horrible rivals will at once fill the vacancy . |
| 22 | He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often . |
| 23 | He says that recent bombings mean that the police must put public safety first . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He says that many students knew very little about the drugs they were taking . |
| 26 | He says that many people do n't realise that they 're so small at the moment . |
| 27 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 28 | Nevertheless he says that formal grammar was certainly useful as a reaction against older , notional views of grammar . |
| 29 | He says that last year he saw people using the woods as a toilet , and jumping over back gardens . |
| 30 | Yet when he says that this change is not deliberate , he raises the fear that he might go back to a Thatcherite policy , if and when he has the chance . |