Example sentences of "say [conj] [pron] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 2 | Say that someone is considering buying something which ( in early 1980 ) cost £100 . |
| 3 | I was pleased to hear the Prime Minister say that there is to be a debate next week . |
| 4 | Say if it 's in such a secluded place you know if you 're gon na be there for twenty , er for days , there 's no help |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman must declare his hand and say whether he is in favour of those disposal powers . |
| 6 | McLoughlin says that one is from the Department of Transport 's Marine Pollution Control Unit , the other from Warren Spring Laboratory . |
| 7 | The Copenhagen school therefore says that it is at this stage that results get fixed and knowledge is established . |
| 8 | Its document says that it is against rebates . ’ |
| 9 | Sir Hemann Bondi , the council 's chairman , says that it is in Britain 's interest to spend more on what he calls the ‘ ground segment ’ of remote sensing . |
| 10 | In addition , TeleWest says that it is in negotiation with other cable franchise holders on possible interconnection of their networks . |
| 11 | I have the greatest difficulty in finding the remotest sense in the policy of a party which says that it is in favour of investment but which goes out of its way by every possible means to penalise saving . |
| 12 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 13 | She says that she is in the bath now , sir , but that she will be with you shortly . ’ |
| 14 | Sir : Roy Hattersley says that he is against electoral reform as it would stop the Labour Party winning an overall majority . |
| 15 | having said that it 's in lieu of the debt that we would have paid . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 18 | It must , however , be said that it is by no means crystal clear that this forms the mental element of the ‘ species ’ torts of unlawful interference with contract and unlawful means conspiracy ( indeed , in the case of the latter it very probably does not ) and it is not easy to see how the species can differ in this respect from the genus . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |
| 20 | He has said that he is in agreement , but with some reservations , about the keeping of custody records and access to a solicitor of the applicant 's choice . |
| 21 | The weaknesses are lack of security the time difference that it can bring if there 's lots of replies going backwards and forwards erm it might get mislaid , it might never get read , you do n't know you ca n't be sure that people are actually reading the memo er you do n't know what the reaction of the people is you ca n't go back on what you 've said because it 's on paper er and it lacks that personal touch can be expensive on time , times to you but sorry erm but can be expensive not on time but on materials . |
| 22 | Well as he says when he 's at home he likes to get down the pub with the boys for a pint because of course it is dry Up There . |
| 23 | I know Feargal lammed into you , ’ she added wryly , ‘ but he does n't mean the half of what he says when he 's in a temper . |
| 24 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 25 | Er he said or he 's in a in a in a little trouble today for allowing two men who had sex of thirteen to go free erm a policeman told the judge that the thirteen year old was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl with pigtails but she was nevertheless thirteen and the judge said he had better not say she was no angel or the national press would have a hundred field days with him . |
| 26 | Bruno Walter once said that there is in every great work only one real climax . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) said that he is in the minority . |
| 28 | One of my boyfriends said that it 's as if I was from another planet . |
| 29 | Well I was just going to say that he 's in advertising . |
| 30 | She 's just written to her to say that she 's on This is Your Life on the third or fourth of March , whatever it is |