Example sentences of "say [conj] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Social learning theory can be applied in many cases but is too extensive when it says that nothing in the human being is innate and that everything must be learnt . |
2 | She says that none of the staff at the Southampton office has been made redundant , although several who have left have not yet been replaced . |
3 | There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery . |
4 | By saying that God ‘ transcends ’ the universe we are saying that none of the limitations that apply to finite life — such as being in a particular place — applies to God . |
5 | This of course is something I was aware of having witnessed a news conference with Miss Graf in mid-week , in which she very politely criticised her absent rivals saying that none of the top ranked players needed the vast amounts of money to be gained by playing in lucrative exhibition events . |
6 | Hong Kong officials were quoted as saying that none of the deportees , the first to be sent back since Patten 's arrival , had offered resistance . |
7 | She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric . |
8 | The chauffeur said that everyone at the hospital was regularly updated on any changes to the hospital 's corporate goals . |
9 | For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly . |
10 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
11 | Dr Raymond Hintz head of paediatric endocrinology at Stanford University , for instance , said that none of the adults in his studies became diabetic . |
12 | A union spokesman said that none of the people arrested were from the sacked Timex workforce . |
13 | To be fair , the C E C have not tried to say that everything in the garden is rosy , they 've also highlighted a number of problem areas that still exist . |
14 | The group 's publicity suggests that the issue being dealt with is mental illness , which led a therapist in the audience to say that none of the characters seemed to him to be mentally ill . |
15 | Nor is it to say that none of the Webbs ' criticisms of Owen is valid . |
16 | I said if nobody like the way I talk they can lump it and you said , Aye they can . |
17 | You could say that everyone at the University is involved in education , at least in the broader sense . |
18 | Roughly , and somewhat metaphorically , we can say that something of the following sort goes on when successful communication takes place . |