Example sentences of "[adj] say it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad to say it was a business-like meeting which focussed on clarifying what action should be taken by the European Community on furthering Coastal Zone Management , particularly in the context of its 5th Action Programme . |
| 2 | Reliant said it was surprised to hear the Robin was considered unworthy of its own category , adding that 49 000 previous owners ca n't be wrong . |
| 3 | Reliant said it was surprised to hear the Robin was considered unworthy of its own category , adding that 49 000 previous owners ca n't be wrong . |
| 4 | Over his shoulder she glanced at the clock over the door — the hands seemed to be moving very fast and she was reluctant to say it was time she was going . |
| 5 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 6 | Sponsors ADT and the British Sports Association for the Disabled said it was necessary because of safety problems , chiefly involving the timing of road closures . |
| 7 | So it is fair to say it was granted for intellectual activities . |
| 8 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 9 | The social desirability of either position was not really an issue , although needless to say it was copiously referred to . |