Example sentences of "[verb] say that [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has said that he is not in favour of that , he would nevertheless still keep them if that was NATO 's decision . |
| 2 | The Minister of Agriculture has said that he is not going to have land set-aside in Britain so that the rest of Europe can produce more' . |
| 3 | I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today . |
| 4 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 5 | Then I hesitate to say that there 's probably a more complex issue now even than the Fire Station , erm , the figures which are given incidentally are the original estimate there , because that was what was available to us at the time . |
| 6 | Frank was successful in getting the job and was given a company car , an old Morris Minor , omitting to say that he was still learning to drive and wife Betty would always have to accompany him . |
| 7 | Fr Piet Leliveld , newly arrived in war-torn Sudan , writes to say that he is now in Omdurman , near the site of the famous battle of 1898 , waiting for a government permit to move to El Obeid . |
| 8 | On July 1st he was writing to say that he was back at the studio , and how delightful it was to be free of catheters , bougies , and syringes . |
| 9 | As you do n't seem to be responding to telegrams for reasons best known to yourself , I am writing to say that I am not coming home immediately . |
| 10 | A Farnham Lane resident who did not wish to be named said that he was strongly opposed to any footpath being opened up to traffic . |
| 11 | At p. 117 , he expressed doubts as to whether money paid in response to an unlawful demand by the Crown could not be recovered in the absence of some threatened action or inaction , but he considered that English authority seemed to say that it was not recoverable . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend seemed to say that it was too easy to obtain the certificates , and that they were handed out with packets of cereal or like confetti . |
| 13 | I think erm you 've got to say that it is not easy to find people to give the commitment to local government work these days and I think a partial remuneration of the expense that they incur is a very reasonable thing for the public to have to meet . |
| 14 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 15 | I 'd like to say that I 'm actually on hormone replacement therapy and I 'm not being monitored . |
| 16 | Catherine says : ‘ I 'd like to say that I 'm definitely against drugs . |
| 17 | I 'd like to say that I was not too sorry to see him go . |
| 18 | Well I 'd like to say that it 's not only adults who have an interest in this subject and have been watching what the county council is going to do about it . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 20 | We feel drawn to say that it is not . |
| 21 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 22 | But as she sat beside Ven Gajdusek while the car rolled silently downhill and into Mariánské Láznë , and she recovered her normally even temper , she could n't have said that she was too put out by the experience . |
| 23 | He would have said that he was as courageous as most , but he knew that no one ever escaped from the workshops . |
| 24 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 25 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 26 | ‘ Having said that I 'm not disappointed that we 're set to play Linfield and not Tbilisi . |
| 27 | ‘ Having said that I 'm not disappointed that we 're set to play Linfield and not Tbilisi . |
| 28 | Having said that I 'm much happier with Beaney in goal . |
| 29 | . Having said that there was always another clause which said that er there would be nothing to prevent our members from bargaining at domestic level . |
| 30 | But , having said that he 's not the most reliable person in the world . |