Example sentences of "[verb] [be] say [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to deny that they had amy political ends other than an end to discrimination : ‘ It has been said against this movement that its purpose is to unite Ireland and to unite the working class … |
| 2 | Indeed , it has been said by some professionals in the field that we are doing the students a disservice by attempting to break through their apathy since their main chance of happiness lies in their passive acceptance of traditional ‘ care ’ facilities . |
| 3 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 4 | And has been said by several people who are here . |
| 5 | I endorse everything that has been said from both sides of the House in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed . |
| 6 | What has been said in this section concerns consciousness itself , and hence , as remarked above , does not concern all of our mental life . |
| 7 | Rather a lot has been said in this chapter about the minor details of lava flows . |
| 8 | ( But note that , despite what has been said in this paragraph concerning the administration of funds , the fact that there was less political pay in the fourth century also helped to dilute the democracy . ) |
| 9 | Enough has been said in this paragraph to indicate that the justification of telescopic observations was no simple , straightforward matter . |
| 10 | Nothing more had been said on that subject . |
| 11 | Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 13 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 14 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 15 | What she had to say was said with some surprise as well . |
| 16 | M. Dupont went on : ‘ Many things of interest have been said in this house over the past days . |
| 17 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 18 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 19 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |