Example sentences of "say that [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 2 | Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway . |
| 3 | Its critics say that even if the waves do not lap over the runway , exorbitant landing fees will frustrate Osaka 's ambitions to displace Seoul as an airline hub for East Asia . |
| 4 | Other sources say that even if SCO does manage to cut a deal for SVR4 — leaving OSF/1 , the other possible route , by the wayside — its future intent is to move to a micro-kernel architecture , and which flavour of that it might go for still has n't been decided . |
| 5 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 6 | But if you say that especially when you say it quickly it 's starting to sound a bit like cos Z squared . |
| 7 | ‘ They say that more than thirty people are dying every week now . ’ |
| 8 | Kingfisher says that even if there had been no leak , the bid would probably have been launched this week . |
| 9 | The Pru plans to keep publishing the restated figures as supplementary information , but Mr Lawrence says that even if the accruals method becomes an accepted format , the Pru will continue to report surpluses released from long-term funds , as it currently does . |
| 10 | At Rio 's federal university , scientists says that even if the use of mercury ceased , the danger remain . |
| 11 | He says that even if the nearest house was ten miles away , people would still complain . |
| 12 | The Consumers ' Association says that rather than give half the cover price to retailers , they prefer to sink the money into campaigning work and more investigations . |
| 13 | Pesticides : Missing the Target says that rather than regulating pesticides on a chemical-by-chemical basis , the government should adopt a comprehensive policy that compares the costs , risks and benefits of chemical and non-chemical control and looks at appropriate pest control for sustainable agriculture . |
| 14 | Is there a compromise which says that rather than increasing the nine thousand seven hundred as suggested a moment ago from the county councils own point of view that nine thousand seven hundred should be decreased on a new settlement . |
| 15 | Aegon , a big Dutch insurer , says that less than 1% of its 55 billion guilder ( $28 billion ) portfolio is invested in structured private placements . |
| 16 | Proprietor Geoffrey Menary says that more than three quarters of its clientele are repeat customers . |
| 17 | The United Nations ' World Food Programme says that more than 20m Africans will depend on food aid this year — more , by far , than during the horrors in the Horn of Africa six years ago . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp says that more than 400 software developers are now armed with the NT development kit containing binary code for both ACE 's Intel and MIPS R4000 platforms . |
| 19 | But having said that even if they all believed in themselves we still know that a lot of people would n't get a job . |
| 20 | It is said that shortly after the Earth was separated from Heaven , Nu Kua created human beings . |
| 21 | However the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that less than one per cent of all tropical timber brought into Britain is managed sustainably . |
| 22 | Section 2(3) seems to go further by saying that just because a party has entered into a contract with a term imposing risk on him , this " is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance " of that risk . |
| 23 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |
| 24 | It goes without saying that even if a person falls within the definition of " dependant " provided in the Act he or she will still have to prove loss arising from the death of the deceased , and in practice many relatives have no claim at all . |
| 25 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 26 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 27 | But Stewart said that even before he was convicted , vital information from other pilots about near-misses was already drying up because of fears of reprisals . |
| 28 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 29 | He said that even if voters did not want to help any candidate , they should still go to the polling station to register their grievances . |
| 30 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |