Example sentences of "say [adj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee . |
| 2 | And as I say that is er fairly straightforward . |
| 3 | They laugh and say that is where they are going . |
| 4 | I know we still say that is defining levels . |
| 5 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
| 6 | US aircraft have been dropping supplies by air since 1 March , but aid workers say that is not enough to feed the people . |
| 7 | Say , say that is the bell |
| 8 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 9 | The reason say that is that I mean , Wednesday erm nights is , if you like , football nights . |
| 10 | So they 'll have an hallucination of eating the cake and say yummy is n't this cake lovely , and you and I can see there 's no cake there . |
| 11 | Staff who have worked in the homes become institutionalised ; they say this is the way we 've always done it . |
| 12 | They say this is only one of several options . |
| 13 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 14 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 15 | As I say this is only the beginning … ’ |
| 16 | But critics say this is inadequate . |
| 17 | The three women say this is contrary to the wishes of thousands of people who contributed about £3 million to help troops and their families who suffered in the war . |
| 18 | The figure for France was six days , but the investigators say this is provisional because of difficulties in collecting French information . |
| 19 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 20 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 21 | To critics who say this is n't drawing but copying , Maureen Cox answers , ‘ In some sense , copying what you see is exactly what learning to draw from life actually means . |
| 22 | Some say this is merely cartoon aggression but some susceptible kiddies could believe that it 's okay to copy such actions because they have no serious effect when Macaulay does them . |
| 23 | I say this is true co-operation . ’ |
| 24 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 25 | Say this is the most toweringly revolting house in all Christendom . |
| 26 | The gradualists say this is an awkward moment , and they are right : it always is . |
| 27 | The Serbs say this is normal at this time of the year . |
| 28 | ICL itself admits to be investigating a parallel processor architecture that will use HyperSparc , sources say this is likely to grow out of a 256 CPU parallel system that the company is now building under the auspices of the European Community 's Esprit project . |
| 29 | The whole carpeting of the building which has been done was that the consultants come in look at colour schemes and say this is what to do . |
| 30 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |