Example sentences of "say [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | So bear in mind that when food writers say that an adult man needs around 2000 calories per day , they really mean that he needs 2000 kcals , or Calories : that is , two million calories ! |
| 2 | If P is some occam term and x is a variable , we say that an occurrence of x in P is free if it is not in the scope of any declaration ( other than a parallel declaration ) of x in P , and bound otherwise . |
| 3 | They say that an additional £420 in student loans and an uprating of 5.5 per cent . |
| 4 | Diplomats say that an agreement may be ready for signing in two years . |
| 5 | Oh I think many teachers say that an even more parents say it . |
| 6 | Some trivial thing — say if an accident happened , three or four people injured in a car crash , pages of statements to take , and then a Report would come back ; ‘ Had the driver signed his driving licence ? ’ |
| 7 | Fisons says that an inspection of the new site by the FDA has produced ‘ no adverse observations ’ . |
| 8 | Sterling Winthrop. which markets paracetamol under the trade name Panadol , says that an application for a product licence is imminent . |
| 9 | Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change . |
| 10 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 11 | Mercury is cagey on pricing , but it says that an agreement with British Telecommunications Plc means that incoming calls will be 50% to 70% cheaper than calls to cellular phones . |
| 12 | of a person and need to write how important it was , the little ones in the accident book , but looking in the erm erm the handbook for the company it says that an accident form should be filled in and |
| 13 | Recall that the optimality theory says that an increase in k should lead to a fall in X , and that our subjects ( on the second repetition ) appeared to be doing the opposite . |
| 14 | Section 2 of the Act expands on the meaning of " new " and says that an invention is new if it does not form part of the " state of the art " ; this expression comprises all matter which has been made available to the public in the United Kingdom or elsewhere , by written or oral description , by use or in any other way . |
| 15 | The Institute says that an undientified virus is to blame , thereby ruling out bacteria , mycoplasmas and other agents such as the ones which cause scrapie . |
| 16 | * A report submitted as part of the public consultations on THORP says that an extra 200 fatal cancers and 10,000 skin cancers will be caused by the first 10 years of discharges from the plant . |
| 17 | Chitty , on the other hand says that an agreement in unreasonable restraint of trade is generally not unlawful if the parties choose to abide by it . |
| 18 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 19 | He says that an enforcement notice has been issued , if the firm fails to carry out the work the County Council will do it and then bill them . |
| 20 | He says that an enforcement notice has been issued , if the firm fails to carry out the work the County Council will do it and then bill them . |
| 21 | He says that an enforcement notice has been issued , if the firm fails to carry out the work the County Council will do it and then bill them . |
| 22 | He says that an enforcement notice has been issued , if the firm fails to carry out the work the County Council will do it and then bill them . |
| 23 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher has welcomed news from British Rail that the Norton to Ferryhill route is to be kept open for freight traffic , but also says that an improved service is badly needed through Stockton station . |
| 24 | Brutus says that an ambitious man often puts on a humble act to gain popularity and then stops the act when he gains power . |
| 25 | He says once an order is made the children have to be put on a plane . |
| 26 | Napoleon is meant to have said that an army marches on its stomach . |
| 27 | While it could be said that an extreme poem reveals hidden struggles most clearly , it may also be remote from the poet 's characteristic beliefs and attitudes . |
| 28 | The IDA responded to the charges by pointing out that it had brought Dr McDonald in to allay local fears after a residents ' spokesperson had said that an independent medical opinion could satisfy the residents and noted that this internationally renowned expert had pronounced the factory to be entirely safe . |
| 29 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 30 | It has been said that an order of mandamus ought not to he made if the respondent is doing all it reasonably can to remedy its breach of duty . |