Example sentences of "[is] say [that] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that as he left , blood flowed from the nostrils of the dead king , a fact which some took as a sign since the body of a murdered man will bleed in the presence of his murderer ; but Henry 's death was the outcome of a life lived at full tilt . |
| 2 | It is said that as route 30 was high on the list for trolleybus conversion , the rails on the new bridge were laid in shallow troughs , from which they could easily be removed , when the tram route was abandoned . |
| 3 | It is said that when he heard his own voice on the radio , some seven years after writing this letter , Lewis was surprised and in some measure disconcerted . |
| 4 | ( It is said that when playing his ‘ interview ’ round of golf he did each of the holes from 13–18 inclusive in three ) . |
| 5 | It is said that when travelling by boat the Duchess of Windsor sent to the bridge for hourly weather reports to be sure that she was appropriately clad . |
| 6 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
| 7 | Now it is said that when in the present case the tenant entered pursuant to the agreement and paid a yearly rent he became a tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement including clause 6 which prevents the landlord from giving notice to quit until the land is required for road widening . |
| 8 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
| 9 | It is said that when a High King or Queen is born , if the child is Ireland 's true heir , they will sing him into the world and they will weave a spell of protectiveness . ’ |
| 10 | It is said that when received the wrappers are of no value to Nestle 's . |
| 11 | It is said that when a wizard is about to die Death himself turns up to claim him ( instead of delegating the task to a subordinate , such as Disease or Famine , as is usually the case ) . |
| 12 | It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . |
| 13 | Typically for the Piaroa , the women are not warned against seeing the instruments with a threat of rape ; rather , it is said that if a woman should see the flutes , the entire village must commit mass suicide by joining hands and jumping off a cliff ( and I must admit that their reasoning on this is not clear to me ) . |
| 14 | It is said that if the Logos is to be conceived to be in some sense male , then equally the Spirit is to be held to be female . |
| 15 | It is said that if a placebo is to have a therapeutic effect , the patient must believe that it will . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 17 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 18 | The rest of the speech is saying that since the whole argument must have no excuse for what he is at the moment , it must be looked at like this : that when he becomes greater , he will become very dangerous to Rome : like a serpent still in the egg , which , when hatched , will become deadly . |
| 19 | However if you can unify against a , a target then there 's a lot more of you against this thing so what Mao I think is , is saying that if we can utilize this |
| 20 | ‘ He is saying that where there is not a straight fight between Labour and Conservatives , people may wish to vote tactically . ’ |
| 21 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 22 | That is to say that although he was clearly not endorsing a militaristic brand of Rambo-style Christianity — say , fighting modern crusades against Muslims , or shooting atheists — he was insisting that to be a Christian meant to be a person engaged in the Great Battle . |
| 23 | ‘ The secret was kept in the way most secrets are kept , which is to say that although the truth did not get out , something got out . |
| 24 | It is to say that whether it has done so can not be determined by asking whether the statute requires a certain state of facts to exist before a decision is reached : all statutes always do this . |
| 25 | The only way to clarify this state of affairs is to say that if you see a cat 's pupils suddenly expand , without any change in light intensity or proximity of objects , then it is experiencing a state of strong emotional arousal . |
| 26 | Who is to say that if , miraculously , all sexual abuse could be discovered , the statistics would not reveal more involvement by women . |
| 27 | In any case , the logic of the government 's case is to say that if you are a person on low income , dependent on council housing , and you happen to live in area like Oxford , which has extremely high land values , then you should pay a very high rent , and they assume that they will pay that high rent and they reduce the grant to the housing fund erm on those lines , with the consequence that the Council had no choice but to put the rents up . |
| 28 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |
| 29 | That is to say that when the Unionists agree to a united Ireland , there wo n't be any need for Articles 2 and 3 ! ’ |