Example sentences of "[pron] [is] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , especially when you 're in front of a screen er or you 're in front of a , a form that you 're , someone 's saying get the traffic profile out and th what they send , what they , how many they send , it can sound like an interrogational . |
| 2 | When someone is said to act or react with ‘ full ’ or ‘ sufficient ’ awareness — qualifications which recur in our argument without further explanation , with no doubt irritating frequency — it is implied that he is aware of everything relevant to his choice of means or ends . |
| 3 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , ’ someone is saying . |
| 5 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 6 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 7 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 8 | Apart from that , we have ( at 25/1 15 ) ‘ that serene Lord King Frederic of Sicily ’ — which is to say , Frederick of Aragon ( 1272–1337 ) , who was Frederick II , king of Sicily ( 1296–1337 ) . |
| 9 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 10 | Surfacing from that perplexity , which is to say between , and sometimes within , the lyrical meditations on love , is the sense of a truly disturbing proximity of antagonists , most powerfully articulated in Genet 's angry ‘ fantasy ’ of the palace and the shanty town : |
| 11 | The third main emphasis in his critique of the concept of the postmodern is to attempt to explain the hold exercised by a demonstrably deficient theory of culture and its dependence on a fundamentally irrationalist philosophy : which is to say he offers a politics of the postmodern . |
| 12 | Which is to say , the political commentary is a form of writing . |
| 13 | This officers ' group lasted for the duration of the occupation , which is to say , for six years , though most of its leaders were caught and executed in the course of the war . |
| 14 | She had taken it into her head to befriend the new lass whom she considered to be a cut above the rest — which is to say , she did n't curse or spit . |
| 15 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 16 | And until that changes — which is to say until human nature does — the opinion polls , spot on as they frequently are , will continue to experience gratifying humiliations such as last week 's . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said Marcus , capturing his left hand again , ‘ I suppose it 's about what makes human consciousness possible , or rather it 's about what human consciousness is , which is to say what , and how , the world is , how anything is . |
| 18 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 19 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 20 | But there are no contradictions in experience , only in propositions about experience , which is to say , in discourse and especially in ideological discourse . |
| 21 | These embellishments are crucial , for they give rise to the two forms of the Shakespearian Equation : ‘ In the first form , the tragic form , the hero rejects the Goddess and is killed by the boar ( arriving as madness ) , which is to say that he is transformed by it . |
| 22 | The other driver at Benetton , Martin Brundle , still has a Toyota Dealer 's Haircut — which is to say it 's reliable , functional and about as distinctive as a Camry — or is it a Corolla ? |
| 23 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |
| 24 | Although it was common gossip that Zoia 's private life was deeply and messily unhappy , and that alcohol was a frequent source of consolation , and of course the stories about Nicu 's debauchery and coarseness were unparalleled , Valentin 's public reputation ( which is to say , the cautious whispers between friends about him ) was positive . |
| 25 | To put this briefly , women who are not part of the tiny professional elite ( doctors , lawyers , executives ) , which is to say , all working-class and most middle-class women , need more education than men in the same position . |
| 26 | Wittgenstein is here opposing our natural inclination when we start philosophising , which is to say that what matters is not the use of the expressions ‘ I know ’ , ‘ I remember ’ , ‘ I hope ’ , but a mental phenomenon — or process or activity — of knowing , remembering , hoping . |
| 27 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
| 28 | The USSR need not , in that cavalier phrase , believe she could ‘ fight and win ’ a nuclear war to retain the orientation she has acquired : nuclear war is ‘ thinkable ’ ; it is , in principle , survivable ; and it must be conducted as war — which is to say , as a continuation of policy . |
| 29 | None of which is to say that Galway 's anguish is not fully justified . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this expectation has been arrived at without the agreement of the partners involved — which is to say , for the most part , Japan . |