Example sentences of "say [conj] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based in the South-west , Richard Tarr , a shop assistant , runs a motorcycle rapid response unit for the UFO group Quest International and says that more and more of his calls are about crop formations . |
| 2 | It says that these and the auditors ' liability problem should be dealt with together : they are closely linked . |
| 3 | The Israeli government had previously said that less than 1 per cent of Soviet Jews had settled in the territories , but its count had covered only the West Bank and Gaza Strip , excluding East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights . |
| 4 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 5 | Well yeah I there , there , there is , I 'm not saying that this and er and I do see what you 're saying , yeah . |
| 6 | Councillor said that that that that hundred and thirty million could be funded over a period of ten years , at thirteen million pound a year . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of May 7 reported that more than 520,000 sq km were inundated , while the Guardian of May 9 said that more than US$500,000,000 worth of crops and livestock had been destroyed . |
| 8 | In the Borders , Peter Jeary , director of finance , said that more than half the 47,000 households on the council tax register would pay less than the regional community charge bills of £312 in 1992-93 . |
| 9 | One sometimes hears it said that this or that innovation is not a matter of extra resources but of new attitudes or different ways of working . |
| 10 | The survey said that fewer than 40% of companies had collected the VAT numbers from fewer than half of their customers . |
| 11 | Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair . |
| 12 | Among MPs and peers , enough dupes or worse are always available to say that such and such a revered British institution — in this case , British justice — is a sham . |
| 13 | But the real question is , rather , whether there is any commonly accepted core of meaning among the various uses of the term which entitles us to say that this or that way of using it constitutes an abuse or misuse of it . |
| 14 | Sorry , I was just going to say that this and the individual department activities seem fair enough . |
| 15 | I am pleased to say that more and more European Community countries are coming to the views that we have pioneered on reform . |
| 16 | So we can say that many that equals a quarter . |
| 17 | I had masses of women coming in with ideas , and I would say that more than half of all of my commissions were brought in by women or contained women — writers , producers , directors . |