Example sentences of "saying [conj] [art] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis on medium , form and aesthetic grammar would suggest that , whatever their ‘ content ’ or ‘ effect ’ , they are somehow different ; at the simplest level , saying that a history or sociology book is badly written is different from saying that a novel is badly written . |
| 2 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 3 | The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ? |
| 4 | Like ‘ excessive profit ’ , ‘ over-priced ’ is merely another way of saying that a market is failing . |
| 5 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 6 | ‘ It is our way of saying that every guest is important , ’ he says . |
| 7 | In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences . |
| 8 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 9 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 10 | But if the literary text says , ‘ The door was open ’ I can not ask the text what it means by saying that the door was open , I can only speculate about the significance of that door — opened by what agency , leading to what discovery , mystery , goal ? |
| 11 | In September 1991 we were given letters saying that the school was organising a ski trip to Austria on the second of April 1992 . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you really saying that the company is to blame for the strike ? ’ the man with the microphone asked , thrusting it under Clasper 's chin . |
| 13 | White responded to speculation raised by Informix chief financial officer Harold Graham last month , saying that the company was unlikely to make any acquisitions , big or small , by the end of the year . |
| 14 | Some people try to use the escape hatch of saying that the problem is a religious one , but it is not , although there are substantial religious overtones . |
| 15 | John Jaenike , an ecologist at the University of Rochester , was reported by Science magazine as saying that the problem was now one of " mass extinctions " . |
| 16 | But then a group of people in Slough were shown on the telly saying that the Budget was a total disaster and they were all going to vote Labour . |
| 17 | It suits us all right , although Joel keeps saying that the service was so much better before the war . " |
| 18 | Is Mr Gilligrew saying that the Government is responsible for every leaf that falls , every poisonous berry that turns purple or crimson ? |
| 19 | The former Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham , was reported as saying that the Government was ‘ thinking with its bottom and sitting on its head ’ . |
| 20 | But the , th when we had the Y D P conference at Scarborough , Valerie was saying that the government was looking at career education . |
| 21 | The ANC rejected the proposal , saying that the government was opposed to majority rule " not so much because of the principle involved but because of dissatisfaction with whom the majority will be " . |
| 22 | Michael recalls him as saying that the notion was suggested by a detective story by R. Austin Freeman , which concerned a negro knocking his brow against a bar , so that the blood issuing forth was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 23 | Might not the Buddha have been saying that the self is none of these constituents , nor all of them in combination , but something other , something that owns , uses and directs these faculties ? |
| 24 | On April 23 , a Sierra Leone military spokesman was quoted as saying that the border was now quiet [ see also p. 38136 ] . |
| 25 | Along with four other intellectuals , including Regis Debray , feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter signed an open letter to Mr Jospin , saying that the scarf is a symbol of Muslim women 's oppression and warning him not to capitulate . |
| 26 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 27 | An official of the Iranian Environmental Protection Agency rejected these claims on Jan. 2 , saying that the leakage was an " ordinary matter " which " the imperialist media had needlessly blown up " . |
| 28 | But the only query that Trevor 's put in my mind is the fact that he 's saying that the cost is gon na be extortionate . |
| 29 | Some historians go no further than saying that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; but others have stated that Molla Fenari was appointed Mufti in the year 828/1424–5 . |
| 30 | Colour matching is not a real problem , heraldry has distinct tinctures laid down and these are adhered to , although Mary has had the occasional viewer saying that the badge was never that colour ! |