Example sentences of "say [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The behaviourist 's second line of defence is to distinguish between knowing and what is known , and say that the behavioural reduction applies only to the former . |
| 2 | Critics say that the real battle against drugs can only be won by international co-ordination and the development of a long-term growth strategy . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 4 | Why does not the Secretary of State for Wales wave the flag for Pierhead and say that the new project could become a great science centre ? |
| 5 | He could but say that the only solution to such posers was a universal pension . |
| 6 | There have been murmurs of discontent among manufacturers considering diversifying away from Macao , but businessmen say that the only impact so far has been a shift of orders from China to Macao . |
| 7 | Imagine my surprise when I heard Douglas Hurd say that the only thing which would make Saddam Hssein toe the line on UN demands short of outright force was sanctions . |
| 8 | Fewer people say that the total cost of credit or the interest rate is important to their choice . |
| 9 | One could , of course , still say that the total entropy , including the entropy inside the black hole , has not gone down — but since there is no way to look inside the black hole , we can not see how much entropy the matter inside it has . |
| 10 | Suppose we say that the causal circumstance for the house fire consisted in the short circuit , the location of inflammable material in contact with the relevant conductor , and the presence of oxygen . |
| 11 | ICES and commission scientists say that the continued use of small mesh will greatly accelerate the decline of fish stocks . |
| 12 | Probability theorists escape this oddity by defining absolute probability in terms of relative probability : they say that the absolute probability of h = the probability of h relative to a tautology . |
| 13 | You say that the chief character in your joke or story was wearing such and such a hat or pair of shoes . |
| 14 | That is what we mean when we say that the Labour party is advocating an envy tax . |
| 15 | Experts say that the current recession is behind the trend . |
| 16 | Whatever the outcome , CRII-RAD are highly critical of CEA in the affair and say that the official CEA figures have been well below the real plutonium levels at the site . |
| 17 | ITN sources say that the Prime Minister will consider this weekend whether to hold the General Election on April the ninth . |
| 18 | The companies say that the finished product will manage every aspect of software , and all activities relating to software licences , including the all important tracking of the number of copies of an application relative to the number of licences held . |
| 19 | They say that the extra energy would be unnecessary if modern conservation methods were adopted . |
| 20 | The is no doubt that polished tools look better , but some say that the extra expense is unnecessary . |
| 21 | do n't actually , do n't actually directly say that the central bi-law is is anti competitive do you or do you ? |
| 22 | Officials say that the German government — which presides over the council until 1 July — is anxious to debate the research plans before its period of stewardship is finished . |
| 23 | Those who believe in delegation say that the elected representative is presumably a responsible person and a committee of responsible persons should be entrusted with responsibility . |
| 24 | Researchers say that the alarming increase in the number of cases in December , the first month of the Brazilian summer , signals worse to come . |
| 25 | They say that the flabby reaction to the Gulf War ( and the lack of reaction to their vague anti-Gulf War B-side ‘ Riding On Through ’ ) made them realise they needed to be more specific . |
| 26 | But miners say that the continuing importation of cheap foreign coal is helping to put their jobs on the scrap heap . |
| 27 | Say that the wrong person has been murdered , a basic idea that has been used and used again but which , given other fresh aspects to your book , can very well be made to serve once more . |
| 28 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 29 | If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect . |
| 30 | No one , either in Orkney or beyond , denies that child abuse exists ; some say that the sexual abuse of children is rife in today 's society . |