Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [be] say [conj] " in BNC.

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1 You may then decide to give a copy of the list to your practice partner and try to spot which one is said when in random order .
2 of tricking people into believing sort of things that are n't true , which they 're saying that er they 're talking to deceased people like people said they talked to er Elvis Presley
3 He is particularly interested in the way that words and sentences change their meaning according to the context in which they are said and heard , and in the ways in which we all fill in the unspoken background of what is said to us .
4 By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy .
5 Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being .
6 Alternatively , he could argue that a defendant has sufficient awareness for the purposes of section 6(4) if he knows of the circumstances by which it is said that his conduct is disorderly .
7 Since the mental element required for the commission of the the offences of organisation and participation is knowledge which the courts increasingly interpret to require an awareness of all the circumstances by virtue of which it is said that an offence is committed , it may well be sensible police practice to issue a warning before arresting and prosecuting with an offence under this Part of the Act .
8 Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence .
9 The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence .
10 During testing the important thing is to ignore what everyone is saying and concentrate on the bike and the new season .
11 You can hear what everyone 's saying and it 's weird .
12 I get hassled when they disagree with what I 'm saying but not hassled in the sense of ‘ you 're an awful fellow ’ .
13 We 're talking about the financial speaker and the way they and I I 'm afraid I sh we sha n't have time to go back and er tell you what I 'm saying but er I hope you can pick it up .
14 That 's what I 'm saying but aye oh well they Ann they have you
15 Yeah you ca n't really be listening to what I 'm saying cos you cos I have n't finished yet .
16 yeah , the buggy obviously can stay up there , what I 'm saying when he 's
17 Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here
18 What I 'm saying if it is a one-off party there 's not a lot we can do about that .
19 What what I 'm saying if
20 I know they do Jed but but I mean what I 'm saying if priority states other forces have probably been waiting and rather than us sort of trying
21 That 's what I 'm saying if they do n't
22 I get the impression he agrees with what I 'm saying and he 's just shaking his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness and spite .
23 I did n't realize what I was saying but it proved to be true .
24 Jackson was so interested in what I was saying that he forgot to deny he knew what I was talking about .
25 Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and
26 I scarcely knew what I was saying or doing .
27 I can totally agree with the woman here just now , what she 's saying but the woman at the back of me just now , she 'd said about lesbianism , this is a different thing entirely .
28 I was terrified when Herman , like someone in her books , turned to me and said : ‘ How delightful it would be if one could hear what she 's saying when she does this .
29 She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark .
30 After five minutes , Simon attended to what she was saying and assumed a look of astuteness .
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