Example sentences of "say that [indef pn] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened . |
| 2 | May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ? |
| 3 | He says that everything has been laid on tonight , no expense spared . |
| 4 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 5 | We 've often spoken about her and said that something has got to happen . |
| 6 | I am glad ( and relieved ) to say that no-one has ( so far ) written again to tell me I 'm an idiot or that my advice was useless . |
| 7 | ( To say that something has a certain position is to say how it is related spatially to other things . |
| 8 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 9 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |