Example sentences of "is say [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An isotope is say several atoms put together |
| 2 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 3 | You see , DHSS is saying 75 things at once and they never resource any of them . |
| 4 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |
| 5 | The difference between causal circumstances and their effects , further , is what distinguishes causal circumstances and effects from other things also in nomic connection , which is to say nomic correlates . |
| 6 | The results of these studies were published extensively in catalogues of private and public collections , and in what in French are termed catalogues raisonnés , that is to say complete lists of artists ' works . |
| 7 | The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction . |
| 8 | The syndrome would be regarded by many as including honeymoon cystitis , that is to say urethral symptoms related to sexual intercourse , but also covers a host of other bacteria-negative causes . |
| 9 | While it is difficult to be firm about the exact numbers required , the generally accepted " bed norm " in Scotland for geriatric psychiatry beds specifically for the confused elderly is as recommended in Timbury , that is to say 10 beds per 1,000 population aged 65+ . |
| 10 | A table , chart , or programme , in this sense , is not a tape or a disc but a sequence of Propositions , which is to say abstract objects . |
| 11 | The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events . |
| 12 | This religion concentrates upon a particular person , Jesus of Nazareth , but in its definition of God it describes the divine being as a Trinity — that is to say three persons . |