Example sentences of "it [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 2 | What sense does it make to say that somebody knows that there is , for example , a beer in the fridge , wants a beer , is able to open the fridge door but does n't open it ? |
| 3 | What sense does it make to say that the corporation is morally responsible to compensate victims from the corporate treasury , with the consequence that its shareholders must bear the loss ? |
| 4 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 5 | Thirdly , it involved saying that ‘ the general principles of the constitution ( as for example the right to personal liberty , or the right of public meeting ) are with us as the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts ’ . |
| 6 | Without it doctors said she 'd only live till she was about eleven or twelve . |
| 7 | Paul hates saying this , but it needs saying . |
| 8 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 9 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 10 | Subsidiary to that , though still important , are the issues of what it has to say and how it came to be : ‘ sources ’ and ‘ designs ’ once more , both things Tolkien disliked , but useful if not essential to a proper reading . |
| 11 | Always meet the opposition and hear what it has to say . |
| 12 | Well er no it 's all right , we we 've got it here now , so let's see what it has to say about it Mrs . |
| 13 | It is n't important ; pop is thus marginalized , and whatever it has to say of greater import is ignored . |
| 14 | The SSAFA is in close touch with the Department at all times and we listen to what it has to say about problems associated with housing and everything else . |
| 15 | I think that it would be best to listen to what it has to say before reaching a decision . |
| 16 | Defending the report , Japan 's Minister of International Trade and Industry , Kozo Watanabe , stated that his department had done no more than publish the " bare facts " , and that henceforth Japan would " say what it has to say and do what it has to do in international affairs " . |
| 17 | VW has yet to finalise specification and prices for the Polos , but it has said they will cost much the same as the models they replace . |
| 18 | THE TSB , the bank which likes to say ‘ yes ’ , has followed the Midland into direct banking — but it has said ‘ no ’ to launching a comprehensive telephone banking package . |
| 19 | It has said WABI was created in a clean room , an argument sources say implies there was a ‘ dirty room ’ somewhere . |
| 20 | It has said WABI was created in a clean room , an argument that some sources say implies there was a ‘ dirty room ’ somewhere . |
| 21 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 22 | It has said , ’ We do not have the power to have a statutory canvass , but without a statutory canvass , we do not know the real position . |
| 23 | First , it has said that the benefits to the consumer are far from obvious . |
| 24 | It has said that Article 10 should not be seen as requiring a " balance " between , on the one hand , the value of freedom of expression and , on the other , the value of national security , crime prevention and the other exceptions in Article 10(2) . |
| 25 | It seemed to say that all this inconvenience had ended well and she , Mrs Browning , had after all gained more than she had lost . |
| 26 | Nothing I invent , it seemed to say , is useless ; and we are not amused . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're doing well , ’ it seemed to say . |
| 28 | Town planning , it seemed to say , was an eminently sensible activity , governed by technical considerations , but its achievements would be limited . |
| 29 | Choreography cost money , and no-one out front really gave a toss anyway ; but all the same it rankled. because it seemed to say something unignorable about the station he 'd reached in life . |
| 30 | Did you truly believe , it seemed to say , that I was to be so easily pinned down ? |