Example sentences of "say [conj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that although sulphur dioxide may play a role in climate change , its effect is unlikely to be sufficiently widespread or to last long enough to offset the influence of the greenhouse gases . |
| 2 | But this does not mean that we swing to the opposite extreme and say that because doubt is a result of the Fall , all doubts are necessarily destructive , negative , even sinful . |
| 3 | We say that if food is good and wholesome in the first place , we do n't need irradiation . |
| 4 | The report , Our Health , Our Planet , says that unless population growth can be drastically reduced , the resources needed to support the human race will be overwhelmed . |
| 5 | The ILO report says that while world trade expanded dramatically in recent years , many working people who contributed to the process did not receive the full benefit . |
| 6 | The receiver for Robert Maxwell 's private estate says that because fraud was rife throughout the Maxwell empire , there 's no reason why Oxford United should have escaped … |
| 7 | David Oakenson says that if guilt is proved then decisive action should be taken . |
| 8 | Mr Llambias says that if news leaks out the negotiation process can be ruined : ‘ You do not announce merger negotiations until after they have been concluded satisfactorily . ’ |
| 9 | The vice-president , Bohumil Svoboda , says that if unemployment rises ‘ we will send the Vietnamese home ’ . |
| 10 | Figure 3.1 says that when prediction fails and the theory is ‘ apparently inconsistent with the facts ’ , it is to be ‘ amended ’ or ‘ discarded ’ . |
| 11 | For instance , Les Paul himself has said that before production began in ‘ 52 he had always had two Les Paul models in mind . |
| 12 | It is sometimes said that whereas occult sciences , such as alchemy and astrology , were static in their theoretical content , modern science has been progressive . |
| 13 | Captain Farquharson has now said that provided planning permission was given and the track area restored , then the film crew could go ahead . |
| 14 | It is said that as route 30 was high on the list for trolleybus conversion , the rails on the new bridge were laid in shallow troughs , from which they could easily be removed , when the tram route was abandoned . |
| 15 | It might be said that if psychoanalysis had not posited the pleasure principle as the basis for the functioning of the unconscious , there would be no problem about this set of phenomena of ‘ compulsions to repeat ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher has said that if economics is the means , then changing hearts and minds is the goal . |
| 17 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |
| 18 | I have said that when Boy first entered The Bar he was exhausted ; exhausted , walked off his feet . |
| 19 | We have some sympathy , however , with those who have said that where property was settled before 26th March 1974 the trustees should have the opportunity , for , a limited period , to distribute the capital absolutely to individuals or create an interest in possession so that the rules set out for discretionary trusts will not apply . |
| 20 | So what I was gon na say was , that , that partic , partic er participant observations typically involves actually living with the , the study for a fair amount of time , so erm although they might tell you a pack of lies initially you can actually observe what they 're like , what they do and see whether they fit what they 've said and as time goes on you ha hope to develop some kind of rapport with them so that they might totally understand . |
| 21 | Radio Mozambique on Feb. 21 reported Di Camerana as saying that after investigation of some sites mentioned by MNR , its military experts had found no evidence of a Zimbabwean presence . |
| 22 | The influential soft-left pressure group , the Labour Co-ordinating Committee , yesterday issued a statement saying that unless impropriety could be proved the result in Birkenhead should stand . |
| 23 | To argue that religion can go wrong , and therefore should be rejected , is like saying that because surgery can go wrong , therefore all surgeons should be pensioned off . |
| 24 | In an interview with the Cumhuriyet newspaper of March 29 President Özal of Turkey said that since unification Germany had sought " to intervene everywhere … to prove that it was a major power " and that " in the past Hitler 's Germany did the same thing , although in other ways " . |
| 25 | One of the teachers said that immediately school re-opened after the Christmas holidays she was likely to encounter little girls doing high kicks in unlikely places in the hope of catching her eye and ultimately achieving one of these aims . |
| 26 | It advised children on the ease of getting gonorrhoea , but said that while syphilis was more fun , it was more difficult to get . |
| 27 | Mr Jack Meredith , chairman of the AMA 's public transport committee , said that while bus patronage was declining prior to deregulation , the Tyson report showed that the fall in journeys was between 100 and 200 million more than would have been expected . |
| 28 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 29 | It said that while recovery in east Germany had begun , the east would remain dependent on the west 's financial aid for longer than expected , while taxes might have to be raised again . |
| 30 | Chairman Louis Gerstner said that while demand was week and the company , which once dictated the terms of trade to the whole industry , suffered continued competitive pressures on its hardware products , demand in personal computers , workstations and service businesses remained strong . |