Example sentences of "[be] [adv] say [is] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices . |
| 2 | But , but they 're saying that , ooh apart from I think the what they 're really saying is that it 's better to wait till in |
| 3 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 4 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 5 | I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 . |
| 6 | Oh what I 'm really saying is that you ca n't er |
| 7 | So what I 'm actually saying is that I 'm making my objective an elephant , it 's too large i e if I wanted to eat an elephant , it 's too large an objective , but I could achieve it by what ? |
| 8 | What he 's really saying is that he does n't know the answer to the question ! |
| 9 | ‘ They should judge him purely on his ability as a player and what they are actually saying is that their man-management techniques are n't up to scratch . |
| 10 | Okay but all I was just saying is that it would be helpful that before we that Ian has seen through these |