Example sentences of "say that [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years .
2 they 're insisting on kids , they 're they give them a problem which is a typical level four or five or six or whatever , and because they get that one problem right they say that that kid is a level six
3 The Farriers ' Registration Council say that that suspension is now lifted .
4 If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ?
5 According to an Iowa State College survey , 78 per cent of the state 's farmers say that modern farming is too dependent on herbicides and insecticides .
6 Those who say that certain individuals are ‘ too old ’ to receive high-technology medicine will hotly deny any parallel with discrimination by race or sex .
7 Trout-fishing on the Kennet is now more or less back to normal , but anglers say that other rivers are still affected and anyone else who spoils their fun in future can expect to pay for it .
8 ‘ If you say that capital punishment is a deterrent , how do you explain that 87 per cent of all murderers convicted over the last 10 years thought there still was capital punishment ? ’
9 Travellers back from Japan say that profound things are happening over there and that despite the buffeting the Japanese companies are taking from the recession they continue to invest in their Unix operations .
10 COUNSEL : Now if you will refer to page 61 of your excellent report , you will see that you say that considerable forces were deployed .
11 The eminent novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was asked in an interview in 1982 " What do you think of other forms and media , such as television ? " and I could not agree more with her reply which was " People say that British television is the best in the world but there is so much violence and such a lot of it is so terrible .
12 The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt .
13 Some say that Linear A is related to the Phoenician and Palestinian languages , and that the texts contain lists of people and quantities of produce ; but it would be premature to assume this .
14 Pedulla say that these basses are effectively customs without the exorbitant custom price tag .
15 The Japanese say that these fish are five-coloured , the hues being red , white , black , dark and light blue .
16 And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ?
17 He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained .
18 He says that there is not any coal in Ila , but to this day there are those who say that some coal was found at Daill and used by a blacksmith at Bridgend , although there is no evidence from where this was obtained .
19 This is the general moral theory first systematically expounded by Jeremy Bentham ( an important figure in penal thought and history ) which says that moral actions are those which produce ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ of people .
20 It will also gather information on why individuals join groups ( in defiance of the free rider prediction that says that collective action is illogical ) .
21 Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop .
22 The hon. Lady selects the wrong argument on which to call Professor Glennerster as witness , because he says that that argument is muddled .
23 It says that two networks are already connected at 2Mbps , and a further four — including three interfacing via TCP/IP — are expected to connect at 2Mbps in the next few months .
24 He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions .
25 He says that Saudi culture is different from ours .
26 But Hartmut Schulz of KAI says that such criticism is unfair .
27 ’ Rosenblatt says that each poem is essentially an interaction between writer and reader .
28 P(i) then says that each integer is either positive or zero or negative ( and never has two of these properties simultaneously ) .
29 Canon says that Still Video is an ideal medium for multimedia presentations because users can mix photographs , text and graphics on a computer , record them on a still video disk and display them on a TV .
30 Smith says that quantitative methods are inappropriate to linguistic inquiries and cites as a warning Labov 's work in New York City , which he represents thus : ‘ The classic example of a quantificational linguistic study is provided by Labov 's investigation of the determinants ( age , class and casualness ) of New Yorkers ’ pronunciation of /r/ , pre-consonantally and finally , in words like ‘ fourth ’ and ‘ floor ’ ' ( 1989 : 180–1 ) .
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