Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh det] is say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study . |
| 3 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But what is said about Jesus really expresses the truth about the human race as a whole . |
| 8 | It is because what is said in the House is so important to MPs that John Major can not brush aside the Iraqgate charges . |