Example sentences of "by saying that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
| 2 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 3 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 4 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 5 | Jiang responded by saying that in 1978 , Deng Xiaoping , then Vice-Premier , said that resolving this issue should be left to the wisdom of future generations . |
| 6 | This whole discussion of the meaning of ‘ here ’ might be summed up by saying that in so far as ‘ Here ’ , in reply to ‘ Where are you ? ‘ , has a meaning , as distinct from a use , its meaningfulness is parasitic on the meaningfulness of ‘ Here ’ in reply to ‘ Where is it ? ’ , the meaningfulness of this being conditional on the possibility of distinguishing places . |
| 7 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 8 | Boswell tried to rally by saying that in India there is a distinction , and Johnson put him down hard . |
| 9 | Hrdlicka sums up the value of the longbones in sexing by saying that in the male they are longer , heavier and have larger attachment areas for muscles , ( including the linea aspera , crests , tuberosities and impressions ) ( Stewart , 1947 ) . |
| 10 | I would start off by saying that in November last year the G M B held a major conference to relaunch our Health Safety and Environment Service . |
| 11 | The nature of elision may be stated quite simply : under certain circumstances sounds disappear ; one might express this in more technical language by saying that in certain circumstances a phoneme may be realised as zero , or have zero realisation or be deleted . |
| 12 | The Japanese emphasise the quality of their wares , and rubbish the UK product , while the UK counters by saying that by the time Japanese food is shipped here it can become oxidised . |