Example sentences of "[verb] be say " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | she 's it could 've been saying |
| 2 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 3 | Letters which are traditionally punctuated are said to have a closed punctuation style . |
| 4 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 5 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 6 | It has been said , by Dan Jacobson , that he ‘ aestheticises ’ his response to violence . |
| 7 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 8 | These books and plays and films reveal a humanity which surmounts , as has been said , the hardship and brutality they describe — surmounts it , as a rule , by laughing at it . |
| 9 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 10 | A lot has been said recently about the Ballerina series of trees . |
| 11 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 12 | Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said . |
| 14 | In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’ |
| 15 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 16 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 17 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 18 | Of my aunt herself has been said , ‘ She was always so patient ; and so kind to the little ones ; the kindest , sweetest person I ever knew . ’ |
| 19 | No word has been said about his fears for his sons . |
| 20 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
| 21 | As will be clear from all that has been said so far , it seems that this short time is barely adequate for the person concerned to have dealt with all the issues involved in adjusting to the death of a loved one . |
| 22 | All that has been said earlier about the need to have time to take in bad news is obviously not appropriate . |
| 23 | It has been said that he understood the psychology of an orchestra better than almost any other conductor . |
| 24 | It has been said that we can regard ATP as a common currency which must be spent to provide energy whenever it is needed — to drive chemical reactions , to cause muscles to contract , or to pump substances across membranes . |
| 25 | His zeal has been said to border on the autocratic , especially on the sets of his films . |
| 26 | ENOUGH has been said about George Harrison and the Natural Law Party . |
| 27 | But it has been said before we should have professional referees — the sooner it 's sorted out the better . |
| 28 | Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD . |
| 29 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 30 | In the light of what has been said above about the nature of the relationships between managerial and professional processes in schools , the competency/threshold model currently being developed would seem to have little to offer in terms of meeting the need for a move towards holistic management processes . |