Example sentences of "be say [conj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're saying that rape is the only way I 'm going to make you mine ? ’ he questioned , and , to make her treacherous body betray her , he planted a spine-thrilling kiss on the side of her throat . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're saying that Riddle was gagged and bound , than put into the Wheel while he was still alive — a real Scapegoat . |
| 4 | Others , like the modern thinker , Alan Watts , have grudgingly admired it : ‘ Without any disrespect it must be said that Christianity is pre-eminently the gamblers ’ religion . |
| 5 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
| 6 | To conclude , it has to be said that balance is the most important factor in chest development . |
| 7 | It could be said that phileo is the relationship . |
| 8 | Despite all the shortcomings of British society in this period from a socialist point of view , and the alarming prospects raised by nuclear armament , it has to be said that capitalism was ‘ too successful ’ , in developing the productive forces and meeting popular aspirations , for political forces supporting a radical transformation of social relations to make much headway . |
| 9 | In addition , it is said that gas is cheaper , but that is not true on two counts . |
| 10 | It 's said that information is power-it 's also an immensely sensitive barometer to shifting status levels , whatever the weather . |
| 11 | The narrowest position is to say that rape is committed only where D threatens violence or knows that V is in fear of violence , and that any other threat must fall within the lesser offence of procuring sex by threats . |
| 12 | They are nice people : they believe that everything ought to be fair , that is to say that virtue is rewarded and villainy punished . |
| 13 | Our inclination is to say that language is not the primary thing , that we are analysing a phenomenon , and that what matters is the question , ‘ What sort of a process goes on in your mind when you know , remember , hope something ? ’ |
| 14 | IN the Budget it was said that beer was going up by 1p a pint , was it not ? |
| 15 | From the earliest times it was said that sugar was brought to Madeira by Prince Henry the Navigator to capture the trade from the Genoese and Venetians . |
| 16 | In Andersen Consulting v CHP Consulting Ltd. ( 1991 ) , a case concerning a dispute about maintenance of computer software by third parties , it was said that confidence is frequently used in connection with copyright material as it is : of course notorious that copyright protects only the expression of ideas and does not protect the idea itself |
| 17 | Justin saw Adam as prefiguring Christ , Eve as a ‘ type ’ of Mary , and called the correspondences of Old and New Testament figures the principle of ‘ recapitulation ’ ; that was to say that redemption is not from the created order but of it and within it . |