Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] say [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 2 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 3 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |
| 4 | I 'd even go a step further than the physical necessities of being able to see and hear properly and say that the audience must be in the right mood , too , to receive the message . |
| 5 | First they begin a political offensive , propagandising widely and saying that the Cuban people oppose Communism … |
| 6 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 7 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |
| 8 | He went further and said that the prosecution bore that burden whenever the issue of prejudice through delay was raised . |
| 9 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 10 | I wish we could just phone up and say that the car 's been snatched |
| 11 | If they stammer and say they have not had time , the Chairman smiles icily and says that the committee fully understands and is sure that the reports will be available at the next meeting . |
| 12 | ‘ She came back and said that the people had arrived for my early morning meeting . |
| 13 | On the subject of predictions , and while the Prime Minister reflects today on the gloomy report by the Confederation of British Industry , does he recall on new year 's day this year saying on Radio 4 that in retrospect , we would look back and say that the economic recovery had already started ? |
| 14 | Indeed , I would go so far as to say that a doctor who continued treatment past this point would be behaving at least unethically , if not unlawfully . |
| 15 | The figure was well below City estimates and one analyst went as far as to say that the detailed announcement ‘ deserves to set the standards for all ’ . |
| 16 | Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense . |
| 17 | But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ? |
| 18 | He went as far as to say that the universities were not convinced of the value of this ‘ experiment ’ and that there were fundamental defects in the way it was being implemented . |
| 19 | But Sir Alan , Flag Officer at Plymouth 's naval base , denies going too fast and says that the commodore 's yacht was not moored properly . |
| 20 | One night , half-way through the run , the box-office manager excitedly rang through to us back-stage and said that the theatre director Matthew Pyke had booked a ticket for The Jungle Book . |