Example sentences of "say that [ex0] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They say that there was a time when El-ahrairah and his followers lost all their luck . |
| 2 | The authors of the survey say that there was very little ‘ in the way of political activism ’ on the part of the Law Lords whose contribution to debates on bills was largely that of acting as ‘ resident technical consultants to the legislature on legal points ’ and it seems that those with records of overt political affiliation did not speak more than others . |
| 3 | No you w to go back to your days in the office , erm you say that there was er er this group of wo people working in the office . |
| 4 | David Mills says that there was increasing pressure in the early Seventies to see a higher percentage of waste materials incinerated . |
| 5 | She says that there was no regular programme of formal lessons where entire classes studied maths or science together . |
| 6 | Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died . |
| 7 | She says that there was noise , trespass and congestion . |
| 8 | Erm that had er most economic histor historians agree that between nineteen fifty two , nineteen fifty fifty two there was a healthy recovery and then a slackening off and that erm another consequence of land reform was to decrease the output marketed by peasants and this was because , as we mentioned earlier , the peasants have a high propensity to consume and lower marketing land was rich peasants erm and that one says that there was a new air reported then in the countryside unleashing unprecedented wave of productive enthusiasm , initiative and creativeness but there was also evidence of instability and uncertainty which hindered erm the advance of erm productiv improving productivity and investment . |
| 9 | The man on the radio had said that there was n't any more power . |
| 10 | In this respect it could be said that there was considerable unevenness within the economy as a whole . |
| 11 | In the instant case it might be said that there was a stronger case for allowing the court 's jurisdiction because there was no provision for any appeal if the Revenue was allowed to invoke s 485 . |
| 12 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 13 | Later , Hazel had said that there was nothing for it but to cross the open pasture and under Silver 's direction they had crossed it , with Dandelion running ahead to reconnoitre . |
| 14 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 15 | In these circumstances it can fairly be said that there was no medical evidence favouring such ventilation , although it was clearly possible that within the paediatric medical speciality some consultant of repute could be found who took a different view . |
| 16 | It is clearly established that the onus lies on the party repudiating the signed document to establish the necessary ingredients of non est factum and it would , in my opinion , have been open to the judge simply to have said that there was no evidence before him sufficient to establish Mrs. Steed 's lack of understanding of what she had signed . |
| 17 | Together with the hold over council housing , it could be said that there was a measure of guidance and control over suburban building , its location , layout and design , as never before . |
| 18 | . Having said that there was always another clause which said that er there would be nothing to prevent our members from bargaining at domestic level . |
| 19 | In Hammond , above , it was said that there was no making off when the creditor allowed the accused to leave . |
| 20 | If it had been anyone else the Direktor would also have said that there was something a little pathetic about her . |
| 21 | After days of speculation , during which racing 's ruling body had said that there was ‘ no evidence of skulduggery ’ , a statement from the Jockey Club confirmed trainers ' worst fears . |
| 22 | Their main aim was not to obtain compensation — it was said that there was no prospect of recovering damages from Mr Anderson — but to rectify what they regarded as the injustice of his acquittal . |
| 23 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 24 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 25 | Coopers & Lybrand was most vocal on this point , saying that there was ‘ no point in pursuing the OFR as a set of recommendations that are extensive but non-mandatory ’ . |
| 26 | Both companies issued statements saying that there was no conclusive evidence that television could affect behaviour in the manner suggested , but Mrs Whitehouse has still claimed that the coverage in the following days had been considerably transformed , using ‘ stills ’ rather than action sequences , and long shots rather than close-ups . |
| 27 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |
| 28 | If the court does not wish to intervene it can achieve this result by saying that there was no error at all , by characterising the error as one within jurisdiction , or by defining jurisdiction itself more narrowly than in Anisminic . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm saying that there was no real evidence against that as a possibility . |
| 30 | It appears to me , therefore , that he is estopped from saying that there was any valid consideration for the defendant 's promise . |