Example sentences of "say [conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Department of Transport erm say that five cuts per year is enough and , and er we , we do seven cuts which is a little bit better than that . |
| 2 | The Food Safety Directorate say that all packets of cling film should carry health warnings . |
| 3 | Some criticise aspects of his theories , for example that the first 5 years of childhood are all important and say that all years of childhood are vitally important . |
| 4 | In the PIMS book , Buzzell and Gale ( 1987 ) say that this measure of performance was highly correlated with five-year averages for accounting ROIs . |
| 5 | I say that this type of equipment is necessary because until we can be sure all major rockets and missiles have gone , there will always be a chance of such offensive capabilities ‘ falling into the wrong hands ’ and that may result in terrible consequences . |
| 6 | But others say that this definition of rape will undermine the progress made so far in getting the courts to take rape seriously . |
| 7 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |
| 8 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Rifkind says that many people in industry are telling him they would ‘ switch to rail tomorrow ’ if they knew British Rail was reliable . |
| 10 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 11 | He also says that transitional arrangements for federation could undermine the international recognition of the Greek Cypriot south . |
| 12 | The department 's radio-ecologist , Charles Osterberg , says that radioactive isotopes of strontium , caesium and iodine now leaking near US coasts are virtually lost amid the vast quantities of their stable counterparts in the ocean waters . |
| 13 | Mr Levy says that this kind of scheme is ‘ good for a strong public company . |
| 14 | One can not imagine , for example , a geophysicist ignoring the results of his seismic surveys because they got in the way of his theories , and yet Weiss says that this sort of possibility exists in bad or unscrupulous social science research . |
| 15 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 16 | But following a shake up last year in internal procedures , he says that most applications for cash are dealt with in a couple of months at the most . |
| 17 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 18 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 19 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 20 | When he appeared before the magistrate at lowly Clerkenwell , charged with ‘ willfully ringing several door bells and knocking at the doors in Upper Street , Islington , without lawful excuse ’ it was said that this kind of mischief — like the Cremorne Gardens affray — was a ‘ frequent occurrence ’ . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it could be said that this type of objection does not relate to reasonableness but is concerned with breach . |
| 22 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 23 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 24 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that any sort of program crash is forgivable . |
| 26 | Far from saying that these types of facility have no place in the countryside , the CPRE believes that sensitive planning is the key to stop development going out of control . |
| 27 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 28 | He feels that he should have heeded those who said that political relations between state and industry in France , and between France and the Third World , precluded the autonomous international centre he had envisaged . |
| 29 | The Catholic Press Office said that new guidelines on child sex abuse involving religious orders would be available to bishops before the end of the year . |
| 30 | He said that unresolved claims on land and property had held back investment and that trade with the Soviet Union and eastern bloc had collapsed . |