Example sentences of "say [conj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash . |
| 2 | The old zeks say that if a man has a nightmare then he should not be disturbed because the awakened life of the camps is more awful than the pain of any dream . |
| 3 | Er you get , sa instructor and they say that if a training course which is gon na start at half past eight on February the tenth , erm yeah well that 's what we got ta do then you got ta start looking to the planning towards have n't you ? |
| 4 | But there is nothing anywhere in the P P G twelve in particular which says that before a district can have policy in their local plan there must be a lead policy in the structure plan . |
| 5 | In a report , Water pollution incidents in England and Wales — 1990 , the NRA says that although a lack of previous data makes an assessment of overall trends difficult , there is no question that the number of incidents reported has risen . |
| 6 | Professor Kaoru Harada , who leads the team at the University of Tsukuba , says that after an organism dies , isoleucine changes gradually from an optically-active compound into one that is optically inactive . |
| 7 | Thus in Summa Theologica , Saint Thomas says that if a defect is known to the vendor , it is a sin not to disclose it and the sale is void . |
| 8 | The Child Support er Act says that when a Child Support Assessment is carried out it supersedes an existing court order . |
| 9 | In his section on the fees for the diplomas of investiture Hezarfen says that when a kadi was appointed , one month 's allowance was taken as a fee on the basis of his daily allowance as recorded in the defter , or register half as the fee for the imperial cypher and half for the kazasker and his staff . |
| 10 | He says that when a jet of ‘ inflammable air ’ [ hydrogen ] was burned in a receiver filled with ‘ common air ’ … ‘ the common air is contracted a full fifth of its original dimensions ; immediately after the flame is extinguished , there appears through almost the whole of the receiver , a fine powdery substance like a whitish cloud ’ . |
| 11 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 says that where a child has been detained in a place of safety , and the Reporter considers that the child may be in need of compulsory measures of care , he shall , wherever practicable , arrange a children 's hearing to sit not later than in the course of the first lawful day after the commencement of the child 's detention to consider the case . |
| 12 | The statement says that where a member 's opinion is sought on the application of accounting standards or principles to specific circumstances or transactions of an entity of which he is not the auditor , he should ensure that he has access to all relevant information , he should contact the auditor to provide an opportunity for the latter to bring to his attention any relevant facts and , given his client 's permission , he should provide a copy of his opinion to the auditor . |
| 13 | In none of these cases could it be said that if a person entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer to another . |
| 14 | It is said that if a placebo is to have a therapeutic effect , the patient must believe that it will . |
| 15 | It has also been said that if a member of a court announced that he would give expression to his views by voting against every licence , he would be disqualified : McGeehan v. Knox ( supra ) , Lord Mackenzie at p.696 . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ This was discussed during the hearing at the House of Lords and it was said that if a case was brought the Attorney General would quash it , and that has been confirmed by lawyers . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ This was discussed during the hearing at the House of Lords and it was said that if a case was brought the Attorney-General would quash it and that has been confirmed by lawyers . |
| 18 | Typically for the Piaroa , the women are not warned against seeing the instruments with a threat of rape ; rather , it is said that if a woman should see the flutes , the entire village must commit mass suicide by joining hands and jumping off a cliff ( and I must admit that their reasoning on this is not clear to me ) . |
| 19 | It was said that if a claim is directed to a technical process which is carried out under the control of a program ( whether implemented in the hardware or the software ) , then the claim can not be regarded as related to a computer program as such . |
| 20 | This caveat was echoed in Sybron Corp v Rochem Ltd [ 1983 ] 3 WLR 713 where it was said that if an employee were required to report each and every breach of duty by fellow employees this would ruin good industrial relations . |
| 21 | We have said that when a logogen reaches threshold ‘ a response is available ’ ; but since there are two output routes from the logogen system ( to the cognitive system and to the response buffer ) this term is ambiguous . |
| 22 | It is said that when a wizard is about to die Death himself turns up to claim him ( instead of delegating the task to a subordinate , such as Disease or Famine , as is usually the case ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
| 24 | Lord Wilberforce had said that where a person created a risk and injury occurred within that area of risk , the burden of proof was reversed and the defendant had to prove that his negligence was not a cause . |
| 25 | It goes without saying that once a person is charged his status is changed . |
| 26 | It goes without saying that when a charity do is well organized and welcoming , it can be the greatest joy and can give you a good deal more than you 'd ever anticipated . |
| 27 | And we said that where a form referred to a procedure , the procedure would refer to the form so I 've added that details are completed on the research approval form . |
| 28 | Lord Reid said that where a party , who is in no way at a disadvantage in bargaining , chooses to take a calculated risk , then he could see no reason why the court should say that he had acted against his own interests . |
| 29 | Leicester C.C. ( N.C. , 1985 ) said that where an order had to be laid before Parliament , laying before the House of Commons was sufficient as there had been substantial compliance with the procedural requirements . |
| 30 | In his final arguments in the three-day hearing , Gavin Lightman QC , for the magazine , said that if a retrial was ordered it intended to subpeona the editor of the Mail on Sunday , Stewart Steven , and two senior journalists from the company in an effort to discover the truth behind a £25,000 payment to Mrs Sutcliffe . |