Example sentences of "say that it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that it does not deal with the problem of people who persistently reoffend while on bail . |
| 2 | Memorex reported a $120m net loss for the nine months to December and the New York rating agency says that it does not expect the fourth quarter net outturn to be much better . |
| 3 | It now says that it does not envisage compulsory staff redundancies over the next couple of years ; and that it has no plans greatly to expand the use of contractors in place of its own staff . |
| 4 | He says that it does n't take account the differing backgrounds of pupils . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp announced that its chief financial officer and executive vice-president of worldwide operations Frank Gaudette , 57 , died early on Friday after an eight-month fight with lymphatic cancer ; the Redmond company says that it has not thought about a successor . |
| 6 | As far as audit is concerned , the Institute says that it has not found ‘ any convincing reasons ’ to ban company auditors from auditing the company pension scheme . |
| 7 | The machines will cost $5m to $30m and the company says that it has already opened talks with some makers of massively parallel computers — observers suggest that Intel Corp and Thinking Machines Corp may be high on the list — according to the New York Times , several major US laboratories have experimented with Cray machines ( Cray-2s presumably ) linked to Thinking Machines kit . |
| 8 | In terms of illicit drug use , cannabis remains the most er available drug and the most used drug , but having said that it does n't present us with problems to the service . |
| 9 | At least in relation to this argument of Thomas ' against the ordination of women , it must be said that it does not hold water . |
| 10 | But because of the advent now of erm organized bonfires , that risk has receded but having said that it has only receded , not gone away . |
| 11 | I meant who was it that was saying that it does n't matter ? |
| 12 | I received a few not so long ago complaining about this place , saying that it does not speak of God ; that it is a monument to a man-made religion ; that it ought to be pulled down and a block of flats built here instead , and the money spent on missionary work abroad . |
| 13 | The jobs that do seem to be safe are those of top management : an official familiar with the agenda for next week 's board meeting said that it does n't include any discussion of personnel changes involving John Akers or any other executive . |
| 14 | This is not to say that it does not contain many magnificent passages , some comic , some sublime . |
| 15 | To say that it does not matter is to say either that all the masculine imagery is not inspired , is merely human in origin , or else that , though inspired , it is quite arbitrary and unessential . |
| 16 | This is not to say that it does not cause symptoms ; we think that it does in some people . |
| 17 | And although it may be bad for a girl of that age to have sex , I can honestly say that it does not appear to have caused me any lasting harm , either emotionally or physically . |
| 18 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 19 | I mean , I mean , lots of different pupils would say that it does n't mean anything in the end because erm you know , what are we here for , what can we do , you know , and like why you know , I mean I , I 'm sure it does n't mean very much . |
| 20 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |