Example sentences of "said [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ . |
| 2 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 3 | The House is debating a complex Bill presented by a Government who for 12 years have said that legislation is not needed on consumer protection issues . |
| 4 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 5 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 6 | Manners briefly countered that Dr Newman had said that Italian was more in accordance with the true Jesuit spirit than Gothic . |
| 7 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |
| 8 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 9 | In addition , it is said that gas is cheaper , but that is not true on two counts . |
| 10 | We have said that depreciation in business can perform the function of maintaining capital . |
| 11 | Not since the nineteenth century can it be said that Parliament has made policy directly . |
| 12 | It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor . |
| 13 | First , at least in the kinds of knowledge on offer in higher education , it could be said that knowledge ‘ progresses ’ . |
| 14 | It 's also been said that Prince , who writes songs for anyone and everyone from Sheena Easton to The Bangles , has written a song specifically for her called ‘ Do Me Baby ’ . |
| 15 | It should be said that Center Parcs are an excellent place to take children . |
| 16 | Then it is said that court time will be taken up by considering a mass of Parliamentary material and long arguments about its significance , thereby increasing the expense of litigation . |
| 17 | ‘ Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 18 | Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 19 | It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 . |
| 20 | From this it could well be said that life motivation stems from the perpetual satisfaction of recurring desire . |
| 21 | A cross-party parliamentary committee on agriculture , prompted by the increasing habit of farmers to bury livestock on or near farm land , has said that government funding is needed to prevent the terminal collapse of the entire economic system involving the re-use and destruction of animal carcasses . |
| 22 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 23 | Since quite serious charges have been made against the foster mother and her ‘ family , ’ it might be said that fairness to her requires that such an investigation should take place . |
| 24 | Someone had said that admission into the hall was by ticket only . |
| 25 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 26 | Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) . |
| 27 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 28 | In a play on the official Nazi designation of Munich as ‘ Capital of the Movement ’ , it was now dubbed unofficially the ‘ Capital of the Counter-Movement ’ ; it was said that propaganda advocating the restoration of the monarchy was increasing , that it was no longer advisable to use the ‘ Heil Hitler ’ greeting or wear the Party arm-badge , and that ‘ sooner or later ’ a revolution could break out in Munich . |
| 29 | We have said that immigration and asylum cases are unique in that the Government and the United Nations fund a free , professional legal advice and representation service in the shape of UKIAS and the Government fund free solicitors ' advice through the green form . |
| 30 | It was implied , for instance , that the medical profession had not said that smoking is bad for you . |