Example sentences of "saying [conj] [pron] has " in BNC.

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1 A declaration should be enclosed for the Charity Trustee to sign saying that s/he has read the constitution , understands her/his responsibilities and that s/he is not disqualified from acting as a Charity Trustee .
2 ‘ Now we 're saying that there has to be a complete ban on overtime and that they should resist moral blackmail . ’
3 Now , am I right in saying that there has been some controversy in the past about hormone replace , let's call it H R T , it 's shorter , that er that not everyone 's convinced it 's it 's it 's a good idea , that there are maybe some negative side effects .
4 If not , is he saying that there has been a decline in other forms of homelessness ?
5 I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House .
6 what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any
7 Pascal goes some way towards this recognition when he observes : ‘ I see , in truth , that the same words are applied on the same occasions , and that every time two men see a body change its place , they both express their view of this same fact by the same word , both saying that it has moved ; and from this conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of ideas .
8 I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today .
9 This is just another way of saying that it has 3ml of alcohol in every 100ml .
10 Hence ( vi ) to say , as Wittgenstein does , that the first person utterance is not verified by observation is tantamount to saying that it has no truth-value .
11 Most of these possibilities exclude animals but where they do not ( we might , for example , feel it appropriate to praise the sheepdog by saying that it has earned the right to a good meal ) the attribution is clearly analogical since it is based upon such a slim comparison with human capacity .
12 Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications .
13 Is he saying that it has balances that are not accounted for by other services ?
14 They invent strange reasons for doing so , saying that it has used anti-competitive practices .
15 Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) .
16 What we will be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that customers can see before they enter into the transaction and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic .
17 No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic .
18 Mr Lapointe defends the use of ivory money saying that he has managed to bring in funds from such sources at the direction of government members of CITES .
19 Our MP Mr Ken Hind ( Conservative , West Lancs ) wrote to people in Scarisbrick saying that he has pushed the Department of Transport into accepting the need for a bypass between Ormskirk and Southport .
20 He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack .
21 The guide confesses his blunder , saying that he has brought the wrong man to the wrong place .
22 ‘ You were saying that he has written a wonderful book — and that it 's going to be published ? ’
23 Is not the Prime Minister saying that he has used all the influence that he can muster to ensure that working people in Britain have fewer rights and less protection against bad employers than the rest of Europe ?
24 Saying that he has nt made any good saves as I understand …
25 It was certainly a more honest confession than George Bush ever managed , and by saying that he has been forced into this decision by an expanding deficit which has gone ‘ beyond even the worst official government estimates from last year ’ , he is also confronting Americans with some central truths about their economic situation .
26 Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression .
27 But then it was virtually er clear again , she was saying but she has a brain tumour .
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