Example sentences of "[vb base] be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 2 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 3 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 4 | People who foresee airplane disasters before they happen are said to have this gift . |
| 5 | but at the moment most of the people I know are saying , go for it ! |
| 6 | And all I remember was saying oh ! |
| 7 | They then made their agreement , which can truly I think be said to have been made under compulsion , by the telex of June 28 , without prejudice to their rights . |
| 8 | When we set out to tell other people the truth by saying things , what we actually do is to say not what we believe , but what we believe we believe — which , as Freud and others have taught us , is n't always the same thing . |
| 9 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 10 | Aaron I think was saying yesterday that it would be a good idea to get at least one tape of some erm stoned people . |
| 11 | Today 's events only confirm what we 've been sayin' . ’ |
| 12 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 13 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 14 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Gilly , you 've been saying ever since you were old enough to talk … . ’ |
| 16 | Mind you , they 've been saying that for years , and the C64 is still the second biggest leisure-software market in Europe ( and the biggest market for budget software ! ) . |
| 17 | I 'm not offending you by what I 've been saying ? ’ |
| 18 | Have the the teachers telling you a way of learning something like I 've been saying put C K if it 's on the end of the word . |
| 19 | Now do you see what I 've been saying all along ? ’ |
| 20 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’ |
| 22 | When I do get round to reading it , I 'll remember what you 've been saying . ’ |
| 23 | There can only be one outcome , the trade unions will retain their involvement in the Labour Party , I 've been saying this all along , as have others , during the course of the last year , the trouble is , nobody listens . |
| 24 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 25 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 26 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 27 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 28 | Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling . |
| 29 | I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me . |
| 30 | Erm , the Chief Fire Officer will enlarge on what I 've been saying . |