Example sentences of "[vb base] say [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The application of the reasonableness test is examined in more detail later at Chapter 6 , 2 ; for the present , suffice to say that it is difficult , if not impossible , to predict what clauses will satisfy the reasonableness test , but a clause which appears reasonable is less likely to provoke a challenge than one which appears less reasonable . |
| 2 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 3 | If the atheist uncovers ‘ His ’ identity , then lo and behold the theists start saying that it is n't God after all . |
| 4 | erm its but I think to say that it is n't happening in schools is a bit unfair , because I do think it does happen in many schools erm and but there 's a great deal of work to be done . |
| 5 | That means five thousand eight hundred and twenty five pounds which one multiplies by four , giving a total under that schedule of twenty three thousand , three hundred pounds , I regret to say that it is of course inherent in the judgment that I have to deliver that there is a good deal of what |
| 6 | This war has another side : I have said that it is a miserable , dirty and very bloody war , but it is also a meaningless war . |
| 7 | Victims have said that it is a way of acknowledging that they are worth something — a common psychological problem after being a victim of a serious crime , is a feeling of worthlessness . |
| 8 | On a number of occasions you have said that it is your belief that any initiatives being announced by the Government by way of statement are best announced to the House . |
| 9 | Will the Secretary of State accept that there are those of us who have never made the point that trust status is about opting out of the national health service , but have said that it is about local accountability and the views of local people ? |
| 10 | The prison governors have said that it is too draconian , and the Prison Officers Association has expressed the view that it is an unnecessary knee-jerk reaction to a deeply serious problem . |
| 11 | Er whereas the County Council have sought to re to er keep vacancies constant , we have said that it is reasonable to seek to plan to keep second homes etcetera as a constant number but what I would term normal vacancies , can be reasonably be expected to go up to maintain the same proportion . |
| 12 | Winch 's contention is that to conceive of the relation of an act to the person who acts in terms of the Kantian maxim ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ is mistaken since ‘ there is no general kind of behaviour of which we have to say that it is good without qualification ’ . |
| 13 | Winch 's claim , already referred to , ‘ that there is no general kind of behaviour of which we have to say that it is good without qualification ’ , is relevant here . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , I have to say that it is the Cow Gum that is at fault here . |
| 15 | ‘ Speaking for the PA , I have to say that it is regrettable that some booksellers feel that the Book Club Regulations have been stretched . |
| 16 | think Well that 's ninety , but you need to say that it is ninety because it 's the angle in there . |