Example sentences of "say [conj] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Prolific say that intermediaries do not like the more usual two-to five-year period for fixed rate loans , as these lock borrowers out when interest rates fall .
2 When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor .
3 Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders .
4 GEORGE III is reputed to have said that lawyers do not know much more law than other people , but they know better where to find it .
5 He says if residents do n't like it , they must complain .
6 Apparently conflicting messages emerge from these two branches : the former branch seems to be saying that decision-makers do not appear to behave in accordance with the basic accepted paradigm ( Subjective Expected Utility Theory and Game Theory ) ; while the latter branch seems to suggest that market outcomes coincide with those which would be predicted by this accepted paradigm .
7 This is not to say that teachers do not have a lot to worry about with the implementation of LMS .
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