Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] [is] say " in BNC.
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1 | The function for English preferred by the Committee , then , is one of aligning the popular imagination and culture , ( what is elsewhere called the " public mind " ( see p.46 ) ) with a sense of communal identity having sufficient " sanity " to neutralize not only " the hostility towards " the culture of capitalism " now prevalent in Bolshevist Russia " , but indeed that antagonism and contempt for literature which is said to be found among " the working classes , especially those belonging to organised labour movements " . |
2 | These are unlikely to assist the seller in the event of fraud whatever is said . |
3 | Thus the substantive apple contains the lexical idea of a kind of fruit : this is its material significate , or lexeme , the import of meaning which is said of some object in the speaker 's experience . |
4 | A budget maximizing strategy is inconsistent with the aim of survival which is said to be the rational foundation for such a strategy ( Breton and Wintrobe 1979 ) . |
5 | he said it 's like a spring like day he 's saying in the South East |
6 | If you prefer , however , you can think of fitting a line to transformed data as equivalent to fitting a curve to the raw data ; in effect one is saying that the relationship between the two variables takes the form of a particular curve . |
7 | ‘ All of this may not seem important to you , but in history who is to say where understanding of a particular series of events starts ? |
8 | Maria ( whose name is pronounced ‘ Mah-Rye-Yah ’ , as in ‘ Black Maria ’ ) is the daughter of a Bean Street neighbour , and suddenly without provocation it is said that she starts an uproar of a fight in which Mrs Jenkins is stabbed . |