Example sentences of "says [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if he 's , I mean he , he says or the implication is that it will stop when they get everything they achieve or perhaps they 've already got what they set out |
| 2 | Harry says that a drop of methylated spirit dotted onto their backs from a camel hair brush caused them to turn pink and expire immediately . |
| 3 | There is , of course , a school of thought which says that a bit of straight thinking , a kind of conceptual analysis-cum-psychotherapy , will sweep this puzzlement away . |
| 4 | ‘ My grandmother says that a normal evolutionary phase can last two hundred million years . ’ |
| 5 | He says that a lower rice price would not only help his constituents but also make Japan 's economy stronger — which is , after all , a good nationalist aim . |
| 6 | Gavron says that a Labour victory would extend the current hiatus in bid activity — but not for long . |
| 7 | Fortunately , the rain seems to have come to an end just in time — and , in any case , Hermann Duckek , recognised as the world expert on producing artificial surfaces , says that a downpour could easily be dealt with . |
| 8 | To be frank , when Pöhl says that a single monetary policy will be unable to take into account the needs of individual regions and countries , what he really means is that the policy will be unable to take these into account if they conflict with Germany 's needs . |
| 9 | The Sierra Club says that a law requiring new cars to use 40 per cent less fuel by the year 2001 would save 2.8 million barrels of oil a day . |
| 10 | There is no law of God or nature that says that a windmill must have four sails , and the independence of millwrights is best seen in Lincolnshire , where there are several surviving mills with more than four sails . |
| 11 | If an author says that a third of the present holders of dukedoms in Britain have been divorced we want to know how he found this out . |
| 12 | The Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University says that a substantial part of the science-policy machine — the part that operates under the auspices of the Department of Education and Science — relies on peer review and ‘ informed prejudice ’ . |
| 13 | The inventor says that a steel flywheel around half a metre in diameter ran store the equivalent of around 5 kilowatt hours of energy . |
| 14 | Intuition says that a runner is quickest on a very hard track , so most tracks are made of concrete with a layer of polyurethane added for cushioning . |
| 15 | The Board says that a new assessment of the polonium impact puts the risk at only one hundredth of its previous estimate . |
| 16 | Black says that a member of a scientific committee that advises the government on the control of predators ‘ intentionally ’ excluded references to Black 's work on dogs in a report dated March 1982 to the Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 17 | He says that a lack of communication between the private sector and voluntary organisations has been an obstacle to the smooth development of community strategy in the UK . |
| 18 | In a written response to the government 's proposals for an environment agency , the NRA says that a single agency would be a ‘ one-stop shop ’ for industry when dealing with monitoring , regulation and enforcement and charging policies . |
| 19 | However Japan and Iceland have taken advantage of a loophole in the regulation which says that a certain number of whales can be killed for scientific purposes . |
| 20 | Halstead says that a 30-ton Brontosaurus would take about three days to change its temperature by 1°C . |
| 21 | This says that a member can defend itself , but in no sense does it endorse a prolonged campaign of counter-attack . |
| 22 | as if its race/record plans were n't enough , ARI says that a modified version of the aircraft , with a single engine and two-seat cockpit , may be marketed as a homebuilt kit . |
| 23 | I WAS an infant teacher for 38 years and it always makes me angry when anyone says that a mother who stays at home caring for her child is ‘ wasting her talents ’ . |
| 24 | However , Martin Broughton , managing director of BAT Industries ' financial services side , says that a recovery in underwriting is already underway . |
| 25 | He says that a good doctor should always make the patient feel comfortable about examinations , but patients should also make sure that another person is on hand . |
| 26 | Matthew says that a small amount of yeast added to ‘ half a hundredweight of flour ’ produces a dough that will rise well beyond its former size . |
| 27 | The law says that a dog does n't have to be on a lead but it does have to be under control . |
| 28 | Ireland assistant coach Gerry Murphy says that a realistic aim for this 1992–93 season is to try and win home matches or at least make it extremely difficult for an opposition team to win at Lansdowne Road . |
| 29 | This may be true of the common-or-garden use of the word idea , but when a philosopher like John Locke says that a man is not speaking intelligibly unless his words ‘ excite the same ideas in the hearer which he makes them stand for in speaking ‘ i it is not just a way of talking . |
| 30 | Wittgenstein says that a child learns to use pain-language ‘ to replace its moans ’ . |