Example sentences of "be [adv] saying that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I ca n't accept the argument that because you make provision to deal by law as well as by practice with the situations where things have got to that point in order to safeguard children , that you are thereby saying that you are going to take more children from their parents ! |
| 2 | I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford . |
| 3 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 4 | ( One caveat : I am not saying that this is the only necessary experiential condition for objectivity : it is , though , the one which highlights the importance of action most clearly in differentiating the objective from the subjective within the stream of experience . ) |
| 5 | I am not saying that women religious have totally solved the problem . |
| 6 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 7 | I am not saying that one might not come out with some new and splendid solution which was neither culling nor letting the environment go to pieces . |
| 8 | I am not saying that a bream leader dishes out orders to his underlings in the same way that an army commander does . |
| 9 | Obviously I am not saying that all policemen are racist but there seems to me to be enough evidence for a nationwide enquiry into such harassment to be held . |
| 10 | I am not saying that natural energy flows do not exist , but to detect them alongside the multitude of artificial energy sources , and the thought forms of everyone who has visited or passed through the site , is likely to be confusing , to say the least . |
| 11 | I am not saying that the diet will completely eliminate cellulite but I do believe it will significantly reduce it . |
| 12 | I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt . |
| 13 | I am not saying that someone who does not understand his faith has no faith . |
| 14 | I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women . |
| 16 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 17 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
| 18 | By emphasizing this convergence I am not saying that culture and identity are unimportant , but challenging the routine reduction of race to them alone which obscures the inherently political character of the term . |
| 19 | I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view . |
| 20 | I am not saying that we should allow industry to pollute , and I entirely support the Government 's claim that the polluter should pay . |
| 21 | I am not saying that unpleasantly : I am just recognising that there is a philosophical divide between us . |
| 22 | I am not saying that that had anything to do with the fact that Brigadier Crawley was in the same regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel Inkin , who is the chairman of the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 23 | I am not saying that that link is not necessary or will not be necessary at some time in the future , but the priority must be to serve the passengers who are paying now . |
| 24 | I am not saying that disturbances always have a single cause . |
| 25 | I am not saying that the country should not consider the matter . |
| 26 | I am not saying that that is not worrying , and we must address that problem ; I shall seek to suggest how in a moment . |
| 27 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 28 | ‘ He said ‘ I am not saying that they are happy but the treatment has been unfair and exaggerated in the papers ’ . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He said ‘ I am not saying that it is happy but the treatment has been unfair and exaggerated in the papers ’ . ’ |
| 30 | What we are saying , and this is as a result of figures which are supplied by O P C S is that we are broadly saying that we will remain in this narrow band towards the end . |