Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is say " in BNC.

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31 What is now being sought is , in a sense , a reversal of that development , in a particular type of case ; and it is said that it is too late to take that step .
32 Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs and it is said to be non-addictive .
33 Retribution soon followed , possibly by rock fall and it is said that Simon 's bones still lie a'mouldering it , the depths — no-one , you see , had the courage to go down into his mine and search for him .
34 The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies .
35 There is a consideration on one side , and it is said the consideration on the other is the agreement itself : if that were so there could never be a nudum pactum .
36 ‘ The Hindus venerate oxen , ’ he wrote , ‘ and it is said that they actually drink the oxen 's urine when they fall sick . ’
37 Alf had married quite early in his career , and it is said that his son , also Alfred , was an even more talented player .
38 But in monumental sculpture , as in gatherings of important people in real life , what matters is who stands next to whom , and what is said of them .
39 It is only in the long run that a match gradually emerges between what is seen to happen and what is said to happen .
40 And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles .
41 As Hopwood states ( 1982 , p. 43 ) : ‘ Familiarity with experience elsewhere should instil a greater realization of the differences between what should be done and what is said to be done , and what is done and what might be done . ’
42 Also in 1935 , the men were given permission to mark cards for the Ladies , but nothing is said of the reverse procedure .
43 That Aethelberht , king of Kent , exercised authority over his brother , Eadberht , is clear from the way in which it was necessary for Ealdwulf , bishop of Rochester , to secure confirmation of a grant of land from Eadberht in 738 from Aethelberht and Nothhelm , archbishop of Canterbury , acknowledging that he had erred in not doing so sooner ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but nothing is said of any necessity to secure Aethelbald 's confirmation .
44 ‘ If we have to go ten times a day , we will go , but everyone is saying that the things should be knocked down .
45 In retrospect it may seem that the trend was already irresistible — the First World War certainly made it so — but who is to say that a positive imperial policy pursued energetically in 1902 or 1912 was inevitably doomed to failure ?
46 Yeah but who is to say he wo n't if he 's go
47 But , but he is saying that there is this process under way , this revolutionary process of overthrowing the system as it stands .
48 But it is said that the Kal yuga gives way to the Sat yuga when the manifested power of the Life Force has reached its lowest ebb .
49 ‘ In n it ’ is not in the dictionary , but it is said and understood .
50 Little is known of their courtship but it is said that , for a brief time , they were happy .
51 I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past .
52 There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason .
53 There is no publicity out yet for the line , but it is said that the 1993 peak season of four trains each way will operate for only five weeks and that at the beginning and end of season there will be no trains on Fridays .
54 But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop .
55 This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease .
56 They 've never comed back , an' 't is said they went to parts where folks was properly thankful for things done for yum .
57 But what is said about Jesus really expresses the truth about the human race as a whole .
58 Rarely , they might talk more coherently , but what is said is seldom sensible .
59 In some such patients , speech production is not eliminated , but what is said is usually entirely meaningless and incomprehensible ( this syndrome is known as transcortical sensory aphasia ) .
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