Example sentences of "[pron] says [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she says is true : Simon will blame me for everything . |
| 2 | The condition of what one says being meaningful is part of what one means . |
| 3 | He intended also to attempt ‘ some play on what everybody says is characteristic , namely , vanity of power and personality ’ . |
| 4 | He reckons NeXTStep can do development five to ten times faster than other technologies such as SunSoft Inc 's Solaris or Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4.2 which he says are weak development solutions . |
| 5 | The things he says are right , and they explain his popularity , but ho he says them explains the certain wariness with which he is regarded . |
| 6 | I 'm more than half convinced intellectually by him , but I still feel some of the paintings he says are bad are beautiful . |
| 7 | Yes , you all laugh — who , all right , he makes — some of the things he says are valid , but because he 's watered his message down , if you , well ‘ watered down ’ is the wrong , popularized his message to make a political point , at the same time he 's alienated other people who he needs to rely on in this scientific community to help him go , go forward . |
| 8 | ‘ Any private seller who makes a factual statement about the goods he is selling , verbally or in writing , can be held to account if what he says is inaccurate . ’ |
| 9 | Yes well of course you can only assume that what he says is correct . |
| 10 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 11 | If what he says is true , which is highly unlikely , they must visit his latrine during the hours of darkness . |
| 12 | I wish I knew how much of what he says is true ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If what he says is true , this ca n't be residual weather effects . ’ |
| 14 | His aim , he added , is to build SyQuest into a $1,000m-a-year company by concentrating on the removable disk sector , which he says is high-profit . |
| 15 | RETIRED teacher George Calvert went to court yesterday to try to stop a noise he says is disturbing God 's peace — the local church bells . |
| 16 | Coun Michna has been a leading opponent of the scheme , which he says is inappropriate for Clairville Common . |
| 17 | The treachery and falsehood he uses to advance his cause he calls prudence , and the path by which he attains his ends , however crooked , he calls straight , whatever he says is lawful . ’ |
| 18 | VISystems marketing manager John Phillips claims that 99% of the source code can be retained using VIS/TP , which he says is faster than Bull 's competing Unikix product ( UX No 390 ) , which emulates CICS . |
| 19 | He says being unemployed meant feeling cut off . |
| 20 | He says being jobless makes him miserable and bored . |
| 21 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 22 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 23 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 24 | Well Chairman I 'm grateful for that , that information , what it says is that er , everybody else is just as confused as I am . |
| 25 | As it is now , HP claims 150 tpsA in a host-based configuration , peaking at at 303.1 tpsA , $5,913 per tpsA , reportedly a new industry price/performance record for single-processor systems , a factor it says is important to the single-stream and batch-oriented applications common in most data centres . |
| 26 | Sparc wannabe , California start-up Integrix Inc , has a graphics accelerator board , the SGX 120 , which it says is identical in resolution to Sun Microsystems Inc 's 1280 x 1024 resolution GX+ board , but only requires one Sbus slot : it 's priced at $2,750 with availability later this month . |
| 27 | The State Administration for Environmental Protection has made public the names of 3,000 businesses which it says are responsible for the lion 's share of China 's industrial pollution . |
| 28 | I I knew that erm I uns , I sa understand some of it but some of it I find a bit hard to understand like this bit , it says be careful , sometimes the unknown side is is the longest side and sometimes it is not . |
| 29 | If we think that what anyone says is likely to cause a breach of the peace , then we 'll act . |