Example sentences of "[noun sg] say [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this lawyer says is true . |
| 2 | Alfiera says is irrelevant because Eddie 's gon na go out and and take action himself anyway . |
| 3 | Freud , Freud 's , you know Freud said that everything that religion says is true , but it 's psychologically true it 's not factually true , it 's not you know true at the reality true psychological . |
| 4 | Not if what his sister says is true . ’ |
| 5 | He 's had a series of clashes with Sony , which his counsel says was unhappy when he wished to play down his sex symbol image , and did n't put its back behind promoting recent albums . |
| 6 | I think it 's impossible to explore why there is a difference , it does not explain why the matters we have already discussed , like vacancies , households and death rates why there is a difference between what the County Council say is one hundred percent , and what the H B F and others are advocating which is considerably more . |
| 7 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 8 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 9 | The fundamental issue which underlay this conflict between rationalism and orthodoxy was not merely the factual question whether or not ‘ what the Bible says is true ’ . |
| 10 | If what the Purchaser says is fair , why does it reserve the right to apply the indemnity basis without prejudice to its right to apply the contractual measure as well ? |
| 11 | One special , coming up very early on the Great Western , with a clear line all the way , made over eighty miles an hour — which even the engineer said was impossible . |
| 12 | I am not sure that what the right hon. Gentleman says is true . |
| 13 | The bathplug ( which legend says is nonexistent in Russia ) would n't be necessary at Sporthotel Gudauri itself , a new 4-star hotel with tennis courts , sauna , jacuzzi , swimming pool and bowling alley . |
| 14 | [ W ] hat a Constitution says is one thing , and what actually happens in practice may be quite another . |
| 15 | Would not it be easy to accede to the commissioner 's request to change the three points in the regulation which the Commission says are defective and deal with Crown immune areas , reduce the latitude given to authorities and ensure that environmental assessments are recorded in writing so that we have proper regulations and proper environmental impact assessments ? |
| 16 | What each speaker says is half the picture , but now we have the missing part : what she also says through how she chooses to look , to make the picture complete . |
| 17 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 18 | The letter says be good to your god , be good to yourself , and try to be a support for us |
| 19 | Mr Lang came under sustained pressure from opposition MPs at the Scottish Grand Committee to intervene to stop what one MP said was sheer gangsterism in Ayrshire . |
| 20 | ‘ What kind of thing to say is that ! ’ said Gloria . |
| 21 | I think the that the first thing to say is that one of the reason why this option this paper was asked for was that we , so we could actually begin to look to see whether or not trickle transfer made sense in Cambridge . |
| 22 | What Sergeant said was true . |
| 23 | The sound of not-so-distant drums brought disharmony to Trinidad Crescent , Poole , Dorset , in what an environmental health officer said was one of the worst cases of noise pollution he had dealt with in 12 years . |