Example sentences of "[noun sg] say [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buid say that the growth and well-being of their crops and children derive from the spirits of the earth . |
| 2 | People in the know say that the animal kingdom is cruel . |
| 3 | Those who believe in delegation say that the elected representative is presumably a responsible person and a committee of responsible persons should be entrusted with responsibility . |
| 4 | Moreover , it is not our function to form a view in relation to any one of these appellants of the proper period for him to serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and then if we disagree with the Secretary of State 's tariff say that the Secretary of State was wrong and quash his decision . |
| 5 | The articles of association say that the value will be fixed by the company 's auditors acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and there is no other way to arrive at the figure which follows the requirements of the constitution of the company . |
| 6 | Either that my Lord or , er as it 's pleaded in in the alternative , should have advised the plaintiff to do that , to get that confirmation in writing and in any event , even if it is alleged as the defendant say that the er that Mr is an experienced man of business and both these plaintiffs were purchasing the business , er and Mrs it is the plaintiff 's case was clearly entitled to that advice in addition . |
| 7 | Yves Domzalski of the European Bureau of Consumer Organisations , to which the British Consumers ' Association says that no system exists for governments to exchange information on medicines or a range of other products . |
| 8 | The Industrial Biotechnology Association says that the 30-day plan reduces the chances that an increasing number of applications will clog the system . |
| 9 | The Football Supporters Association says that the majority of English fans will travel to Sardinia without tickets and with nowhere to stay . |
| 10 | ‘ Waddell says that the names Pat and Jimmy were used during the attack … it is no wonder the police were convinced that Griffiths and I were responsible . ’ |
| 11 | Labour says that the assemblies would be financed initially by block grant , but that eventually they would be give tax-raising powers of their own . |
| 12 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 13 | Quate says that the latest result is so close to the theoretical maximum that his team is now going to concentrate on making the SAM easier to use , rather than pushing ahead with improving the resolution still further . |
| 14 | The Chronicle says that the agreement with Edmund included the fixing of a tribute and that London bought peace from the enemy too , and we have seen that the later meeting there reaffirmed that a tribute would be paid . |
| 15 | The rule says that the court shall not grant leave to apply for judicial review unless the applicant has a sufficient interest in the matter to which the application relates . |
| 16 | The subsection says that the board " may " transfer , but this has been interpreted as meaning shall transfer , if they are satisfied as to fitness . |
| 17 | The Oxford Dictionary says that the ‘ manager regulates or is in charge ; or succeeds with limited resources or means ’ . |
| 18 | The Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that the word ‘ empiric ’ means ‘ based on observation or experiment , not theory ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Horology is the study or measuring of time or making of clocks ’ — that 's what our dictionary says and the latter is what we do ; we make clocks for a large company called the London Clock Company , but we had very humble beginnings … . |
| 20 | The Confederation of British Industry says that the recovery will not come for many more months . |
| 21 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 22 | Debbie Dent from Oxfordshire 's Trading Standard 's Department says although the product 's been withdrawn from sale in most shops , some of the sets marked ‘ Salter 's Science Fun with Crystals ’ may have already been bought and put aside for Christmas . |
| 23 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 24 | The new deal says that the number of hours worked , as opposed to those on duty , should be reduced to 60 as soon as practicable . |
| 25 | The first law of thermodynamics says that a small change in the entropy of a system is accompanied by a proportional change in the energy of the system . |
| 26 | If you could burn the fuel at a higher temperature , then the second law of thermodynamics says that the conversion can be more efficient . |
| 27 | On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ . |
| 28 | ( The parallelism of the three statements is interrupted by the different form of the third , and the particular words used for male and female , which are not those which one would expect , are the same as those which the Septuagint — the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures with which Paul would have been familiar — uses in the Genesis verse. ) 34 If this is the case , then Paul is in effect saying that the subordination , which owes to the fall , is overcome in Christ , the second Adam . |
| 29 | This is in effect saying that the policy makers for the public sector were indeterminate , at that time . |
| 30 | But then a group of people in Slough were shown on the telly saying that the Budget was a total disaster and they were all going to vote Labour . |