Example sentences of "[be] say that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses . |
| 2 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 3 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
| 4 | alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I |
| 5 | We are saying that some populations ( i.e. sexual ones ) evolve faster than others , and hence will survive when others go extinct . |
| 6 | It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view . |
| 7 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 8 | ( It should be said that such views often gained the support of feminists , particularly outraged by the forcible use of the speculum under the Contagious Diseases Acts . ) |
| 9 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 10 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 11 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 12 | It may be said that these facts are materially different from those in our problem , for in our problem there seems to be no choice as to who is to die : it is simply ( one supposes ) a question of some or all . |
| 13 | It is said that more pigs are reared there than there are people in the entire country . |
| 14 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 15 | Most infections occur in childhood , although it is said that those adults who have escaped infection when young may be infected by their own children , a reversal of roles from congenital syphilis . |
| 16 | What concerns me is that , in effect , the Minister is saying that all campaigns are condemned before they begin . |
| 17 | That is to say that some changes are believed to arise internally within the system and are motivated by system-internal factors , whereas others are said to arise from the influence of neighbouring languages or dialects . |
| 18 | That is to say that most definitions of money include ‘ bank deposits ’ of some description and these are deposits with the monetary sector . |
| 19 | The most popular way to regard the cases is to say that both groups are equally valid and that differences turn on the legislative instrument . |
| 20 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 21 | It was said that these teenagers were easily offended . |