Example sentences of "say it [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say it was the importing of whole streets of fighting families from the fishquays , with their dockland diversions of prostitution , drug-dealing and handling . |
| 2 | Others say it was the shortage of pubs , shops , churches , transport and police stations . |
| 3 | Indeed , industry observers say it was the swingers who gave birth to the home porn video in the early-Eighties . |
| 4 | Say it was the beginning of a feeling that you would like me . |
| 5 | The bone itself is probably the ilium , one of the bones in the toad or frog 's pelvic girdle : some say it was the breast bone . |
| 6 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 7 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 8 | Delta says it was the ‘ destructive acts ’ of the creditors ' committee and its advisers that prevented the reorganisation , and that it provided $115m finance and blames the committee for its losses . |
| 9 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence says it was the bottle that first got Frank into diffs . |
| 11 | But she says it was the tiredness she was unprepared for . |
| 12 | Desmond says it was the woman he lives with — is n't it awful , at his age ! — who really suggested there should be a get-together . |
| 13 | But his lawyer says it was the wrong verdict and the wrong charge . |
| 14 | His best friend says it was the way he would have wanted to go |
| 15 | He says it was the worst day . |
| 16 | Bob Howe , Bus Driver , says it was the bus company 's way of saying thank you to the children for their good behaviour . |
| 17 | Vet , Neil Forbes says it was the worse case of starvation he 's ever seen . |
| 18 | If I was a cynical person , which you all know that I am not , I would have said it was the Government 's intention to help lawyers make more money out of the Act . |
| 19 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
| 20 | I remember an old friend saying it was the rape of Russia 's heritage . ’ |
| 21 | The Commander was fond of saying it was the sea on which the Spanish Armada had been defeated , the sea that Adolf Hitler had not dared to cross . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it was incredible that they took the line that they did by seeking to say it was the Prime Minister who should apologise and not the Daily Mirror . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't believe what 's happened today , but I have to say it was the best 45 minutes I 've had since coming back , ’ he smiled . |
| 24 | ‘ When Mark Bright was the lone striker he used to say it was the most difficult job around . |
| 25 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |
| 26 | Mr Morton goes on to say it was the Queen who persuaded her not to try to end her marriage and to accompany her husband on their official visit to South Korea . |
| 27 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 28 | Throughout the campaign less than 3 per cent of voters said it was the main issue that should be discussed . |
| 29 | None the less , even in that week only 39 per cent of the electorate rated it ‘ extremely important ’ and a mere 7 per cent said it was the main issue that ‘ should be ’ discussed by the parties . |
| 30 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |