Example sentences of "say [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Pausanias actually says is that Hegetorides , the xenos in question , ‘ is bound to me by closer ties of friendship than anyone else in that part of the world ’ . |
| 2 | All the adaptive expectations model says is that farmers supply , right , S T is some function of the expected price right , erm . |
| 3 | " Men actually exist " reveals nothing about who or what men are ; all it says is that men are not fictional , that they are part of the actual world . |
| 4 | What is being said is that God 's love makes its home in human beings and that it seeks to be replicated and brought to completion within them . |
| 5 | She guessed that what was being said was that Piphros was the control , the experiment running alongside the real one , that indicated the result that could be expected with a known norm . |
| 6 | nor reproduc duc tu tu tology , but what I am saying is that secrets store up trouble , and when doctors are |
| 7 | What they 're saying is that Colin was purely administration . |
| 8 | What I am saying is that Mills was one of the MI6 officers with responsibility for WIN . |
| 9 | ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’ |
| 10 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 11 | What I 'm saying is that Iraq is an independent state , an independent sovereign state , and whoever attacks Iraq to change the government or to destroy Iraq , then they should expect that Iraq is not going to be an easy bite to swallow . |
| 12 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 13 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 14 | What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street . |
| 15 | No I 'm not ignoring them but what I 'm saying is that problems that people are genuinely concerned about of dust or noise are unlikely to have an impact at a distance of two miles . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 17 | I mean effectively what you 're saying is that York has got a capacity for about another three thousand three hundred dwellings ? |
| 18 | But what you 're saying is that ideas , if acted upon , do the opposite . |
| 19 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 20 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 21 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 22 | The first thing to say is that BMW has n't left anything to chance . |
| 23 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 24 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 25 | One of the big problems about erm teaching people what Darwin really said is that people 's concept of evolution by natural selection is er contaminated by ideas which were actually originated , not by Darwin , but by the founder of British sociology , Herbert Spencer , whose dates were nineteen twenty to nineteen O three . |
| 26 | What I actually said was that Borges ' most important work , Fictions or Ficciones , was not currently available in the UK . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 28 | All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant . |
| 29 | Birdland 's manager Wayne Morris told NME : ‘ All I can say is that reports of the band leaving Lazy are totally untrue . |
| 30 | What I will say is that Gerry Addams is a member of the Republican Movement . |