Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm simply saying that Sarella disclaimed all rights to Uncle 's bequest before becoming engaged to me . |
| 2 | I 'm just saying that things might be less confused , and less dangerous , if he could soberly entertain the idea of being homosexual . |
| 3 | I 'm merely saying that Gramps could not have been the father of her child ! ’ |
| 4 | It 's always said that Oppositions rarely win elections , Governments lose them . |
| 5 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 6 | It is also said that Jacqueline had begun writing to a young Glaswegian who really was in prison . |
| 7 | It is also said that girls are more verbally adept and can express complex concepts more readily than boys . |
| 8 | It is also said that Moorcroft was shocked to find that his co-professor was wholly ignorant of all veterinary matters ; yet Moorcroft and Coleman had negotiated the terms of their joint appointment , and it is inconceivable that Moorcroft could have remained unaware of his future colleague 's lack of veterinary knowledge . |
| 9 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 10 | It is often said that Britain 's membership of the Community is good for British business , and attention is drawn to the volume of our trade with the Community . |
| 11 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 12 | It is often said that opposites attract , but this does n't usually work with horses ; most people are happier with an animal whose temperament is similar to their own . |
| 13 | It is often said that women have greater access to housing in the public sector than men , or that housing officials tend to be more sympathetic to women . |
| 14 | It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats . |
| 15 | It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 . |
| 16 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 17 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 18 | We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism . |
| 19 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 20 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 21 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 22 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 23 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |
| 24 | It is sometimes said that rules in the last two categories ‘ lack the force of law ’ , that is , they are not enforceable in a court . |
| 25 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 26 | It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said that judges are entitled to make extrajudicial statements critical of the existing law and advocating reform . |
| 28 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 29 | It is sometimes said that Watkins adopted such a variety of markers , including features of all types and ages , that his ideas can be discredited on this point alone . |
| 30 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |