Example sentences of "say that [pers pn] [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Foxhunters say that they perform a valuable service , controlling the numbers of foxes , which can become pests .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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
10 This says that they satisfy a superposition principle .
11 ‘ I have said that I require a second opinion . ’
12 ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team .
13 Elaine keeps saying that they cut a hole in her sister .
14 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 .
15 No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit
16 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 ?
17 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 .
18 You said that you have a good job — does n't it bring you into contact with all sorts ?
19 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 .
20 I am sad to say that we have a different record on pedestrian deaths .
21 These adopters do not want society to say that they have a black child , that is , a child of two black parents .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 For the moment , suffice it to say that I take a skeptical view of the structural analyses offered .
24 The self-employed mechanic who services my car — I am sometimes ashamed to say that I have a car — also sharpens sickles , sells strimmers and repairs motor cultivators .
25 " I have to say that I have a different opinion of you than of some of the others from your house .
26 Because I can not distinguish one from the other it must be a physically identical statement to say that I have a particle " there " and an identical particle " here " .
27 Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly .
28 Hmmmm , at the risk of seeming boring and conservative , I have to say that I have a certain amount of sympathy with Wilko over this one .
29 I 'm bound to say that I meet a lot of people who praise me for speaking up , but do n't speak up themselves .
30 ( For example , they might say that they have a woman deacon in their parish , or that they have chosen a woman — or a man — as their doctor . )
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