Example sentences of "be say [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’ |
| 2 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 3 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 4 | We are saying that this applicant does not do that |
| 5 | They wilt readily learn to distinguish light from dark and there is some evidence that they can also distinguish patterns and colours , although it must be said that this capacity is extremely limited compared with the normal capacities of the animals concerned ( Pasik and Pasik 1982 ) . |
| 6 | It must be said that this technique for measuring capacitance is not particularly new . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it could be said that this type of objection does not relate to reasonableness but is concerned with breach . |
| 8 | Whilst owing his debt to Lorca , it has to be said that this volume is markedly conservative . |
| 9 | It could also be said that this quotation applies to school librarians , as part of the educational workforce . |
| 10 | However , it must be said that this paper is not an attempt to cast management in an entirely negative light and then to oppose that with an equally ‘ rosy ’ view of professionalism — with the implication that management must recede and that professionalism should advance . |
| 11 | It could be said that this assimilation had become ‘ fixed ’ as part of the phonological structure of English syllables , since exceptions are almost non-existent . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 13 | It is said that this course was wholly unnecessary . |
| 14 | It is said that this ghost still beats his eerie tattoo during times of war . |
| 15 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 16 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 17 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 18 | When he appeared before the magistrate at lowly Clerkenwell , charged with ‘ willfully ringing several door bells and knocking at the doors in Upper Street , Islington , without lawful excuse ’ it was said that this kind of mischief — like the Cremorne Gardens affray — was a ‘ frequent occurrence ’ . |