Example sentences of "it say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who defend it say that it repesents ‘ an area of moderation and wisdom in French democracy ’ and that both are sorely needed . |
| 2 | It says that health and social policies should accept that responsible drinking in pubs is a benefit to society . |
| 3 | It says that employers should be encouraged to make reasonable workplace accommodation for people with HIV and draw up guidelines and educational programmes for dealing with Aids at work . |
| 4 | And , without a hint of irony , under the heading ‘ All kinds of people enjoy the arts ’ , it says that 3.1 million News of the World readers go to the theatre , and 1,157,000 Sun readers attend art galleries or exhibitions . |
| 5 | It says that about 98,000 young people go missing annually , sometimes only for a short period . |
| 6 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 7 | It says that without building on existing community services , residential care will expand even faster than the £1 billion growth in the 1980s , as measured by social security costs . |
| 8 | It says that 340,000 people with two jobs are being double counted , and there is a discrepancy of one million between the numbers claimed to be in self-employment and those self-employed people paying national insurance . |
| 9 | Indeed it says that it wants to hand its own computer business over to NCR 's managers , and has pledged not to close the firm 's factories or sack its workers as a result of the merger . |
| 10 | ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’ |
| 11 | And it says that wherever we see a firing squad , we are always on the side of the man tied to the post . |
| 12 | It says that slow growth will give an incoming government little scope either to cut taxes or increase spending over the life of the next Parliament . |
| 13 | It says that , given Hongkong Bank 's good profits , ‘ its purchase of another less profitable bank is believed to be of concern to major shareholders ’ . |
| 14 | It says that , even under a Labour government , hostility to British Gas would reduce competition to the generating companies . |
| 15 | CITROEN disputes Daihatsu 's economical motoring laurels ; while admitting that it has not tackled the Round Britain run yet , it says that its AX diesel has achieved 112.01 mph over a 100 mile road route . |
| 16 | It says that in every case authoritative directives can be overridden or disregarded if they deviate much from the reasons which they are meant to reflect . |
| 17 | It says that in surfing or planing conditions you are allowed only three pumps per wave . |
| 18 | And it says that prospective Depo patients need more detailed information of the drug 's method of action and side-effects if they are to give truly informed consent . |
| 19 | Yet it says that the amount of government research cash spent by industry is ‘ pitifully low ’ . |
| 20 | It says that other owner of PWRs are learning a lot about reactor safety as the clean-up continues . |
| 21 | There is no way of monitoring arms once they are sold , although I believe Contraves when it says that it would have to fit the latest equipment to any ship , and would not fit Argentinian ships . |
| 22 | It says that Stirling Moss can use his word processor as a telex machine . |
| 23 | But it says that the surviving mudflats may be needed in future because they are near deep water and could make good sites for factories that are served by ships . |
| 24 | In its extreme form , as enunciated by Brandon Carter , a cosmologist now at the Paris Observatory , it says that the conditions we observe in the universe must include the various electrical and gravitational constants that hold all planetary matter together and thus give rise to intelligent terrestrial life . |
| 25 | In tableau notation , it says that , if is x J ( or σ J ) and x/N , is its partner : a J ( or x J ) , then . |
| 26 | It says that you too — an ugly , little thing — will open your wings and fly . |
| 27 | It says that output grew by 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 , with the number of companies up from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 in 1991 . |
| 28 | It says that productivity rose by 5.9 per cent in the year to October . |
| 29 | It says that rotation of partners does not demonstrate independence . |
| 30 | It says that these and the auditors ' liability problem should be dealt with together : they are closely linked . |