Example sentences of "say that [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that , that there are others equally we say that we women to determine what happens to their own bodies and their destiny is for them , I respect that view too but in those circumstances you do n't resolve problems by the majority whatever it happens to be determining what the minority will do . |
| 2 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 3 | Technology suppliers to the British hotel and restaurant industry say that their products are often under-exploited , because too little thought has been given to what the systems are supposed to achieve and too low a priority is given to staff training . |
| 4 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 5 | The US is hardly lily white in the battle over chip imports into Japan , and Japanese chip users say that their US suppliers have been cancelling deliveries in favour of US customers even as they complain about the difficulty of penetrating the market , according to Electronic Industries Association of Japan . |
| 6 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 7 | And say that their members save their newspapers too . |
| 8 | I must hold my hand up and say that their goal was down to me . |
| 9 | Some fathers say that their child does as he 's told while the mother complains that she has no control . |
| 10 | Mothers may vehemently oppose this view and say that their child is clean at age 1 year but usually they mean that their child has regular bowel habits . |
| 11 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 12 | The injured parties say that their livers are ‘ not good ’ ( we would say we were feeling depressed ) , they ‘ miss their spouse ’ . |
| 13 | Most groups say that their patients are not conscious of the stimuli but some have reported that their patients are conscious of them ( Barbur et al. |
| 14 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 15 | And say that their wages will not them maintain . ’ |
| 16 | Then next for the Spinner we shall ensue , We 'll make them spin three pound instead of two ; When they bring home their work unto us , they complain , And say that their wages will not them maintain ; But if that an ounce of weight they do lack , Then for to bate threepence we will not be slack . |
| 17 | Bonhams say that their business has increased , and it will be interesting to see if they will begin to develop their arms , armour and militaria sales . |
| 18 | The couple say that their smoke alarm , provided by the council , was n't working . |
| 19 | I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector . |
| 20 | Donald Wilson 's business , Ward and Son , of High Street , Aldeburgh , faces closure because trading standards officials say that his petrol pumps , which swing out over the pavement , are a hazard . |
| 21 | Some local people say that his spirit still walks among the hills , searching for lost travellers . |
| 22 | Only close family members attended the service , some of whom say that his body showed signs of torture . |
| 23 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 24 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 25 | Albert would no doubt shrug philosophically , and say that his analysis concedes that the hare will sometimes run ahead of the tortoise . |
| 26 | Those who defend it say that it repesents ‘ an area of moderation and wisdom in French democracy ’ and that both are sorely needed . |
| 27 | As say that your answers from the people at that in fact certain jobs are safe and being redeployed . |
| 28 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |
| 29 | They say that your son was sending potions , that the lady may have been poisoned . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ To those who murder and those who direct them , I say that your crimes in the end will only yield you more long , long years in prison . |