Example sentences of "when it [be] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 2 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 3 | ‘ After all when it is said and done , |
| 4 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 5 | Thomas Duff , who had been going about his business as a messenger boy when it was said that he ‘ nearly ran in to two gentlemen ’ , put up a stout defence in court . |
| 6 | That is , they are not of the form exemplified at the end of the last section when it was said that if cc was a causal circumstance for e , then there is the true generalization that all circumstances of the type of cc , even if certain other events or conditions occur , are followed by events of the same type as e . |