Example sentences of "[pron] be say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am saying that , and I think the other party leaders will have to say that too . ’ |
| 2 | But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two . |
| 3 | ‘ I am saying that I can produce a printed Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle which contains the words ‘ Elementary , my dear Watson . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The man is saying that you keep the noise down , and I am saying that you do what the man says . ’ |
| 5 | I am saying that we are confronted , beneath a language which is often common to both parties , with two competing moral philosophies , and that the language of partnership is a mirage , a deliberate and partisan disguise for the fact that one of those philosophies holds power while the other comes from beneath the underdog . |
| 6 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 7 | And it is against the background of this kind of ethnographic experience that I am saying that the recognition of a distinction Natural/Supernatural ( Real/ Imaginary ) is a basic marker of humanity . |
| 8 | I am saying that there could be an appeal to the Secretary of State and that therefore it is not appropriate to have a meeting . |
| 9 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 10 | We can pick over whether the peak age is 15 or 18 , but I am saying that crime has doubled . |
| 11 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 12 | Old friends from many years ago they probably would n't call me a friend but I am saying that er very er |
| 13 | and , I am saying that they have n't got the lease |
| 14 | My Lords I I 'm to say that this is of course erm a very controversial area and it is quite frank that it should be controversial too . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm saying that the me-ness of my consciousness was once Ewan Famber . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm saying that officially the WS organization is now run by Buckmaster 's wife , Leonora . |
| 17 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ he answered softly , ‘ I 'm saying that I now consider the IRB to be of only secondary importance . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm saying that I think you do n't care about the stupidities of convention . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not saying that women ca n't raise sons on their own , I 'm saying that it 's difficult for a woman to teach , and very near impossible , in my mind , for a woman to teach a young boy how to be a man . |
| 21 | No I 'm saying that it 's , it 's between now and Christmas Wednesdays , got ta keep them clear . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean I 'm saying that there 's obviously open land within built-up areas . |
| 23 | Er , the economic situation is is entirely their fault , er , not that I 'm saying that the Labour would do any better , but erm I 'd like to see a bit more er , a bit more opposition from the er , from the Labour party and er , not so much direct action , but saying , you know , things do not have to be like this ! |
| 24 | I do n't mean art should be as clear as the instructions on a packet of seeds ; I 'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know he 's deliberately choosing not to be lucid . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm saying that there was no real evidence against that as a possibility . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm saying that I think he could have done . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm saying that someone , having knocked Mr Hambro cold , dragged him across the path to the water , and shoved him firmly into the soft mud with his face under water , to die . ’ |
| 28 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 29 | I 'm saying that there are different articulations of rebellion but people need to know how to rebel ! |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |