Example sentences of "[be] say that [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 2 | It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts . |
| 3 | two thousand whatever , not you 're saying that parents subsidize that , you know |
| 4 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |
| 5 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 6 | Apparently conflicting messages emerge from these two branches : the former branch seems to be saying that decision-makers do not appear to behave in accordance with the basic accepted paradigm ( Subjective Expected Utility Theory and Game Theory ) ; while the latter branch seems to suggest that market outcomes coincide with those which would be predicted by this accepted paradigm . |
| 7 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is said that men mature as they grow older like a good red wine , but that a woman 's beauty fades with age . |
| 11 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 12 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 13 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 14 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 15 | The second possibility is to say that things get fixed along that chain once the objects with which we have to deal have become " large " . |