Example sentences of "[am/are] say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context , people are said to practice female mutilation as a habit . |
| 2 | He said that all the important things in life are said in Latin . |
| 3 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 4 | Their options business , normally for underlying amounts of DM10m-20m a day , are said by others to have jumped to ten times that amount . |
| 5 | Heroin labs are said by Afghans to be in the Chagool mountains , operated by fundamentalist mujahedin commanders belonging to the Hizbe Islami . |
| 6 | Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric . |
| 7 | The morning rays are said by yogis to be highly charged with prana ( life-force ) and are the most beneficial to health . |
| 8 | ‘ I hear what you 're saying about bodies being sucked into walls … and sometimes spat out again . |
| 9 | No , but it 's what they 're saying to Fergie , is just go ! |
| 10 | It 's a plea which we suggest should make the timetable serve the child and not the reverse , and so what we 're doing is we 're saying to children erm ‘ Yes , you are of the same worth , you are of equal value , you should have the same care , love attention and the same resources ’ . |
| 11 | But iff you actually allow B R as an organization to bid , I think it 's making a nonsense of privatization because you 're saying in essence there is n't anything wrong with B R management at the moment and we 'll let them take over the network . |
| 12 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 13 | I , I E you , you 're saying in effect that the government is taking all of the surplus from the , from agriculture ? |
| 14 | You 're saying in charge is sort of like , I am in charge which is like this . |
| 15 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 16 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 17 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 18 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 19 | They are saying in fact that there is no truth outside or beyond the concrete historical events in which men are involved as agents [ and ] there is therefore no knowledge except in action itself , in the process of transforming the world through participating in history . |
| 20 | For this , work out what A and B are saying in John Wegg 's photo and put the answer on a postcard with your name and address . |
| 21 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 22 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 23 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 24 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 25 | I 'm saying to Glasgow city council that I think the reason for the poor health of its people is due to factors outwith health services and more to do with social and economic factors such as unemployment and bad housing . ’ |
| 26 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 27 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |