Example sentences of "say [that] [pron] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the largest single event of sheer naked coincidence , sheer unadulterated miraculous luck , that we are allowed to get away with in our theories , and still say that we have a satisfactory explanation of life ? |
| 2 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 3 | Most teachers would agree with this statement and , indeed , say that they use a variety of approaches and methods in their work , suiting them to the needs of the individual learner and the stage that pupil has reached . |
| 4 | Many governments round the world say that they spend a lot of money on military equipment because they need to defend themselves against other countries that might try to take over their territory . |
| 5 | Some women who form a relationship with another woman in middle age say that they discover a new kind of fulfilment and a sense of equality with another person that they felt escaped them before . |
| 6 | Foxhunters say that they perform a valuable service , controlling the numbers of foxes , which can become pests . |
| 7 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 8 | If , when you do , the neighbours think you are being anti-social explain or say that you have a passion for climbing roses or clematis , or make some other excuse if you wish to be polite . |
| 9 | You 've got what , you know in terms of when you 've got say that you have a very very high percentage of people , all in the same position living in one area . |
| 10 | It is in my body qua sensitive that sensations occur ; and the occurrence of a sensation in some part of my body qua sensitive is all that I mean when I say that I feel a sensation in some part of my body . |
| 11 | It says that they have a right to have their own needs assessed , the wishes of the family and other carers erm , have to be taken into account carers have to be involved in drawing up local plans |
| 12 | This says that they satisfy a superposition principle . |
| 13 | ‘ I have said that I require a second opinion . ’ |
| 14 | Your special on the future of Microsoft ( May 22nd ) quotes Nathan Myhrvold as saying that we need an advance on ‘ smearing ink across dead trees . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team . |
| 16 | ‘ It goes without saying that we have an obligation to pray for a just , understanding and — dare I say I — compassionate solution to the situation . |
| 17 | Elaine keeps saying that they cut a hole in her sister . |
| 18 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 19 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 20 | Noisy Californian roustabouts PAVEMENT are currently getting into a bit of a lather as some upstart garage band from Sacramento called SPIRAL STAIRS are laying a claim against Pavement 's guitarist of the same name , saying that they have an ‘ entertainment copyright ’ on the name and want some compensation . |
| 21 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 22 | The housekeeper at the rectory said that they have a splendid display of late June roses this year and offered to let me have some . |
| 23 | You said that you have a good job — does n't it bring you into contact with all sorts ? |
| 24 | Another way to express this motivating power of individualism is to say that we have a tremendously strong interest in explaining at least some social phenomena in individualist terms , since this enables us to explain ourselves to ourselves ; to see what it feels like to be in someone else 's shoes . |
| 25 | I am sad to say that we have a different record on pedestrian deaths . |
| 26 | These adopters do not want society to say that they have a black child , that is , a child of two black parents . |
| 27 | Pains are not subject to our will , we do not choose to feel them , but this does not lead us to say that they have an existence independent of our experience of them . |
| 28 | This is not to say that all theories of legitimacy are only or merely ‘ rationalizations ’ ; rather , it is to say that they have an element of rationalization in them . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I suppose now that you 've dragged it out of Edna , I shall have to say that I remember a man and my mother in a yellow frock looking unusually pretty and being angry that they would n't take any notice of me when I tried to get their attention . |
| 30 | For the moment , suffice it to say that I take a skeptical view of the structural analyses offered . |