Example sentences of "be saying [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 're given this very general instruction to begin with that yes we are returning to land reform and that the peasants are , are seizing land and this is what you should be supporting , and then when you come on to they , as you 're saying that they really are quite moderate . |
| 2 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 3 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 4 | So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy . |
| 5 | and , I am saying that they have n't got the lease |
| 6 | Some of these children are saying that they are not black or that they do not want to be associated with other black people . |
| 7 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 8 | Non-users are saying that they need to seek information but the catalogue does not contribute to fulfilling that need . |
| 9 | It says right here , ACT-UP did their fucking nuts , quite right too , held a demonstration outside the Chicago gaol and everything , but they still deported him , and now THT and BP and everybody are saying that they wo n't go to the San Francisco conference unless they let PWAs in . ’ |
| 10 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 11 | Some people are saying that they 're deadly dangerous and er , we need to wrap up as if you 're going into a nuclear zone , and er , somehow other people say they 're vital , it depends on what sort of mix you use , and how you use it , and where you use it . |
| 12 | I think erm it 's interesting erm to listen to desert island discs the last two weeks that the luxury item chosen has been a piano and people are saying that they would like very often , there are a lot of people who 'd like the opportunity to have learnt a musical instrument . |
| 13 | Rather they are emphasising the fact that every programme they show has been seen before , at least once although they are saying that they are ‘ devoted to Britain 's favourite TV programmes ’ . |
| 14 | You see , a lot of people are saying that they should take |
| 15 | Now it 's made the people , I have friends in Moscow , who are saying that they are losing a lot of their food supplies , because the West are taking the most throw down prices so that the Yugoslavs and the Romanians can get the goodies they want for us . |
| 16 | I need interpreters in my surgery who can speak Punjabi , Urdu and Gujarati , otherwise I can not understand fully what my constituents are saying when they have complicated immigration problems . |
| 17 | But what we need to do as well , is to listen wha to what the churches are saying as they address these issues . |
| 18 | The Christians in Corinth were confused ; should they withdraw from such a society ; one party in the church seems to have been saying that they must , to avoid being defiled by all the ‘ isms ’ ( paganism , hedonism , animism , polytheism , … ) around them ; the other party was saying that contact with the non-Christian society around them was all right . |
| 19 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 20 | All I can try to do is to outline what theists have been saying when they talk of God , and to try to offset some popular misconceptions of what they mean . |
| 21 | What had he really been saying as they sat among the trees ? |
| 22 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |
| 23 | The judges would , in effect , be saying that they were not willing to sanction the disbarment of a barrister pursuant to unfair procedures , and would be insisting that the matter should be handled again more appropriately . |
| 24 | But I 'd also become disenchanted with pro-lifers who seemed to be saying that they loved my unborn baby but hated me ! |
| 25 | That 's what I 'm saying if they do n't |
| 26 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 27 | I was surprised by the number of people who were saying that they disliked him , and by the degree of bitterness and the spiteful determination that he had to go . |
| 28 | It 's ironical that only last week the National Association of Private Residential Homes were saying that they will be going bust as a result of inadequate funding . |
| 29 | Now if you look at the figure for , say , Westminster , which is a London Borough much in the news in these matters , you will see that the government is saying that they can have a standard spending assessment of seventeen hundred and twenty seven pounds per charge payer . |
| 30 | Now the thing that seems to be the most interesting on the er face value of it , is er how it 's going to affect fuel consumption and transport , and he is saying that they 're considering whether further changes should be made in the taxation of er fuel and vehicles . |