Example sentences of "for say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — As one of the two speakers criticised in Council by Mr John Chawner for saying that schemes for tax relief on child care were non-starters and a waste of health service money perhaps I may be allowed to draw attention to a debate earlier that day . |
| 2 | However , there are various reasons for saying that man is the same grammatical element in 74a and b . |
| 3 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 4 | Gregory claims that it was the king who insisted that the consecration should be held at Metz , out of affection for the candidate , but this may be a euphemism for saying that consecration in Clermont was too dangerous . |
| 5 | ( Of course if there are resurrections , then my point is proved and there is again a regularity to nature ; but then there is no particular reason for saying that Jesus is unique as Christians believe . ) |
| 6 | I was in the Feathers the night Sandy MacAllister punched Laurence Uden on the nose for saying that Stanford Roberts had been drunk at poor old Sidney Cunningham 's funeral . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 8 | There is a case for saying that Nietzsche 's relationships , though often intense , hardly ever permitted the degree of self-revelation , at least on his side , that true intimacy presupposes . |
| 9 | There 's no doubt that there is a case for saying that Bayfield is too big for front-jumping . |
| 10 | Let Dr McNab give his reasons for saying that cholera is spread by the drinking of infected water ! " |
| 11 | In principle , there is a strong argument for saying that programming languages are ideas and , as such , can not be protected by copyright . |
| 12 | Is not it now time that the hon. Member for Peckham ( Ms. Harman ) apologised to the House for saying that GPs were not interested in fund holding ? |
| 13 | I know that that is not supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers or by shopkeepers , but there is a case for saying that shops should be licensed . |
| 14 | Put simply , once we move away from the commencement theory of jurisdiction then the rationale for saying that absence of evidence does not constitute a jurisdictional defect simply disappears . |
| 15 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 16 | 3 An unidentified vandal drew a Hitler moustache on the portrait of Maggie Thatcher in the Commons tea-room. 4 The Roman Catholic Church finally admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo for saying that Earth orbited around the Sun , in 1633. 5 Following the Windsor Castle fire , it was suggested the Queen might move into Prince Andrew 's house Sunninghill , nicknamed ‘ Tesco 's ’ by the Daily Star . |
| 17 | For to say that Jesus was a ‘ rightful king ’ means far more than it might simply in today 's world — far more than just a legitimate inherited position as head , symbolic or otherwise , of a secular state . |
| 18 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |