Example sentences of "[noun sg] say [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this lawyer says is true . |
| 2 | Now , what the New Testament says is striking . |
| 3 | Alfiera says is irrelevant because Eddie 's gon na go out and and take action himself anyway . |
| 4 | Whatever the entry says is what lies in store for the opener . |
| 5 | ( As a matter of fact , a previous owner has pencilled ‘ First Edition ’ inside the cover , but , bearing Gaby Goldscheider 's confession in mind , what the soldier said is n't evidence . ) |
| 6 | You know simple language , they wanted to know where he was coming from , but Jesus it says would not say a word in answer to any of those accusations , but then the High Priest says are you the Messiah , the Son of the Blessed God . |
| 7 | Freud , Freud 's , you know Freud said that everything that religion says is true , but it 's psychologically true it 's not factually true , it 's not you know true at the reality true psychological . |
| 8 | What Im saying is the running of the forwards creates space and chances . |
| 9 | What Im saying is with the midfield and full backs we have there s no need to be under much pressure . |
| 10 | What Im saying is that there s no harm keeping these players … maybe loan some of them to lower clubs to get more experience etc . |
| 11 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 12 | Mr Rifkind was opening a two day defence debate which Labour said was being rushed through before cuts in next months budget . |
| 13 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 14 | Lawyers went on strike from Nov. 9 to protest at what the bar association said were the arbitrary arrests of four of its members in North-West Province . |
| 15 | All the card said was ‘ dinner ’ . |
| 16 | Er now I mean One thing that a lot of the literature says is that this might indicate a power , and another thing that the literature says |
| 17 | Not if what his sister says is true . ’ |
| 18 | Kate West says been it 's been horrible . |
| 19 | No it 's funny unle I Mum says is it something that 's just been published this year you know , like if someone just published |
| 20 | He 's had a series of clashes with Sony , which his counsel says was unhappy when he wished to play down his sex symbol image , and did n't put its back behind promoting recent albums . |
| 21 | What the text says is that we are to have faith as a grain of mustard seed . |
| 22 | I think it 's impossible to explore why there is a difference , it does not explain why the matters we have already discussed , like vacancies , households and death rates why there is a difference between what the County Council say is one hundred percent , and what the H B F and others are advocating which is considerably more . |
| 23 | What the Trade Descriptions Act says is it 's a criminal offence for any trader to describe his goods in a false or misleading way . |
| 24 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 25 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 27 | Er and what the law says is if you change your mind I 'm afraid the law does n't entitle you to anything at all . |
| 28 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 29 | The first was the ‘ cult of the generalist ’ or ‘ all-rounder ’ which the Fulton Committee said was ‘ obsolete at all levels and in all parts of the Service ’ . |
| 30 | it 's up to him whether it 's , whether they say it 's right or wrong I think , I think what the council said is if they , if they want it , the thing shifting , they are strong enough to get it shifted if they , if they , if they really feel that the things rot , you see up in the Dales they , one chap built a house and er , and they said they had to pull it down because it would n't fit in with , of |