Example sentences of "be say the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 2 | So you 're s you 're saying the plan of the course er when |
| 3 | So you 're saying the chances of getting four aces , provided you put it back each time and shuffled them again , would be sixteen out of fifty two . |
| 4 | And erm also in what they 're saying the intimacy of their self-dissuasions . |
| 5 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 6 | It could be said the key to his personality and the contribution which he has made to the diocese of Middlesbrough as Bishop is unfolded in an eloquent way by the new Cathedral which he caused to be built . |
| 7 | There it is said the ghost of his departed wife pleaded with him to proceed no further . |
| 8 | There is a consideration on one side , and it is said the consideration on the other is the agreement itself : if that were so there could never be a nudum pactum . |
| 9 | In 1589 Wild Will was out riding and was just about to jump the stile on the ancient trackway when it is said the image of a burning baby appeared . |
| 10 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 11 | Yeah , it 's not the heaven I 'm objecting to , it 's , it 's saying the rain of heaven , we we do n't use that kind of structure now . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 14 | An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway . |
| 15 | Observation sentences can be individually verified and our acceptance of them justified one by one , and constitute the evidence on which the non-observational , that is to say the whole of science , must rest ; this is the epistemological asymmetry . |
| 16 | Here again we can ask what else we could possibly start from other than what is given , that is to say the evidence of our senses . |
| 17 | They take place in and indeed are sometimes identified in part by a location , which is to say the location of a person or other organism . |
| 18 | It is I believe a result of that situation that reference to the correct , that is to say the continuation of washing-over , was not known in the documents first submitted by way of representation to various planning . |
| 19 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 20 | I can however say that their conclusion with regard to the two other ponds at Skelton , which are mentioned in Ryedale policy E N V Eleven , that is to say the ponds near Wrights Manufactory and er that near the Barratt development , are apparently not found erm suitable er by the Great Crested Newt , and are inhabited largely by mallard . |
| 21 | It is by now quite well known ( certainly it will have come to the attention of those who attended the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 ) that the European Court 's method of interpreting Community legal texts is primarily teleological , that is to say the interpretation of a provision on the basis of its object and purpose . |
| 22 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 23 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 24 | In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up . |
| 25 | This book is much concerned with what I shall call ‘ extrapolation theory ’ ; that is to say the drawing of inferences regarding the sequence of changes whereby one psychobiological state has shifted to another — from chimp-like language , say , to human speech . |
| 26 | Every business or public organization has its market , that is to say the group of existing and potential buyers or users of its goods and services . |
| 27 | In such circumstances the language of kinship — that is to say the set of words which fulfil the domestic purposes of the English words " father " , " mother " , " brother " , " sister " , " uncle " , " aunt " , and so on — is used to denote what we might otherwise be inclined to regard as economic , political , legal or religious relationships . |
| 28 | The total set of such terms ( that is to say the words in themselves without reference to any associated set of behaviours ) is said to constitute " the kinship system " of the society concerned . |
| 29 | Where goodwill still has to be valued in relation to payments to outgoing partners , one of two bases is likely to be used : ( 1 ) excess profits , that is to say the amount by which an outgoing partner 's profit share exceeded ( a ) what he might have been expected to earn as an employed solicitor , and ( b ) the income he might have been expected to receive from investing his capital contributions in safe securities ; or , and much more frequently , ( 2 ) the average net profits of the partner concerned . |
| 30 | Erm , twenty-two two the recommendations not yet dealt with , the first is the review of the County Farms estate , and I will move paragraph nine one , that is to say the recommendation of the property services sub-committee okay , here we are , which is a recommendation to this committee to adopt option one as set out in the submitted report namely to maintain the County Farms estate at around it 's present size , and to manage it in accordance with the nineteen eighty-eight review of the estate . |