Example sentences of "says that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the watching gods take a hand ; and one of them says that the great Roman god might not approve of a settlement in Africa , of a mingling of peoples there , of treaties of union between Africans and Romans . |
| 2 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |
| 3 | He says that it is ‘ difficult to say when omnipotence becomes powerlessness ’ . |
| 4 | The poem says that women are ‘ much nicer than men ’ . |
| 5 | But when Patrick says that sort of thing to Jenny , he adds that she is an exception to this law of nature . |
| 6 | The Facts says that the ‘ crack-up ’ of 1987 had induced ‘ fiction fatigue ’ , a need to ‘ demythologise myself and play it straight ’ . |
| 7 | Clive Swift , in his admirable and essential book The Job of Acting says that when you were at drama school ‘ you were a big fish — now you 're a tiddler ’ . |
| 8 | Accepted marketing wisdom says that 20% of customers represent 80% of one 's business . |
| 9 | Senior research metallurgist for the Cutlery and Allied Trade Research Association , Alan Medlock , says that it depends on what you call 13/0 . |
| 10 | He also says that the nickel content does not , for all practical purposes , make any difference to the hardness , but that it does make it more stain resistant . |
| 11 | Cavaye of MacGregor and Company says that stock levels should reflect business and the demand for the kind of food being served . |
| 12 | ‘ She says that when she asks the gardener for produce she feels she does n't always get the best . ’ |
| 13 | Harry says that a drop of methylated spirit dotted onto their backs from a camel hair brush caused them to turn pink and expire immediately . |
| 14 | He says that the church is dangerous — ‘ not fit for a man of God to officiate at a most solemn sacrament ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent . |
| 16 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 17 | There is , of course , a school of thought which says that a bit of straight thinking , a kind of conceptual analysis-cum-psychotherapy , will sweep this puzzlement away . |
| 18 | How about a more modest version of the argument which says that only certain ‘ primitive ’ concepts are innate ( about three-dimensionality , causal relations , etcetera ) , and that the more sophisticated concepts develop out of these through the time-honoured processes of differentiating finer concepts from global ones and integrating the results into complex , structured concepts . |
| 19 | The constructivist says that we should regard the problem of how it is possible to act at will as the best philosophical and psychological road to the problem of mentality . |
| 20 | In the dedication of his book , Fodor says that the following remark by the psycholinguist Merrill Garrett had a strong influence on his thesis : ‘ |
| 21 | He says that if the wages element is higher than 15 per cent of the selling costs , then he has ‘ to work out ways of working faster ’ ! |
| 22 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 23 | The House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities ' report , Energy and the environment , says that without ‘ enormous political will and commitment ’ the Government 's promise to stabilise carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels ‘ will never be met ’ . |
| 24 | It says that health and social policies should accept that responsible drinking in pubs is a benefit to society . |
| 25 | At the Red Lion , for example , Jim Stevens says that two barrels a week are pulled through his handpumps . |
| 26 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 27 | He wrote month after month with fearful haste , and yet the Soviet editor only exaggerates slightly when he says that the manuscripts reveal ‘ immense , most rigorous work , literally over every phrase ’ . |
| 28 | In the last chapter , in prison , he says that without the crime he would not have found within himself such questions , desires , feelings , needs , strivings , and development . ’ |
| 29 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 30 | So there 's no inconsistency when Dostoevsky says that what is ‘ most important ’ is the ‘ special tone of the narrative ’ whereby ‘ everything will be saved' , and that the tone of the narrative rests in Stavrogin ‘ not being elucidated ’ . |