Example sentences of "[det] [be] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Another way of putting this is to say that habituation training produces a loss of effectiveness by the to-be-CS ( a reduction in ‘ conditionability ’ or ‘ associability ’ ) and that this loss is determined by the same mechanism as that controlling the loss of overt URs .
2 This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless .
3 White-collar workers increased their share of manufacturing employment from 27.6 to 31.7 per cent between the 1971 and 1981 Censuses ; that is to say that services provided in offices and laboratories within manufacturing concerns increased in relative importance and largely escaped the process of job reduction which took place on the shop floor .
4 With every such operation the greater the risk becomes that " leakages " will occur , that is to say that lower.preference votes will pass to candidates of other parties .
5 That is to say that savings are a function of the rate of profit and unproductive consumption .
6 They are nice people : they believe that everything ought to be fair , that is to say that virtue is rewarded and villainy punished .
7 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 .
8 Justin saw Adam as prefiguring Christ , Eve as a ‘ type ’ of Mary , and called the correspondences of Old and New Testament figures the principle of ‘ recapitulation ’ ; that was to say that redemption is not from the created order but of it and within it .
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