Example sentences of "say [that] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper . |
| 2 | There is a small literature on new dialect acquisition ; it must be said that not a great deal is known about it . |
| 3 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 4 | What do you feel you know the fact that that that quite a lot of erm well you were saying e you saying that quite a few quite a lot more coloured people live here |
| 5 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 6 | Rather more perceptive ( I felt ) was an article in The Independent , a London newspaper , which said that even a serious scientific book like A Brief History of Time could become a cult book . |
| 7 | Peter Donaldson said that quite a few people came into his shop and tried to exchange Dillons vouchers under the misapprehension that they were Book Tokens . |
| 8 | The minister said that only a small amount of radioactive material had escaped . |
| 9 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 10 | Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ . |