Example sentences of "[is] [adv] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 2 | I think she 's right saying that er er watch that off |
| 3 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 4 | Now , with the proposed acquisition of CGI , IBM is effectively saying that despite its vast army of surplus employees , it ca n't find 4,000 among with the skills , or the ability to acquire the skills to be found in an unexceptional middle-ranking software and computer services company — and the move is hardly a morale-booster for all the people within IBM that ply their trade in software and services . |
| 5 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 6 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 7 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |
| 8 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 9 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 10 | They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents . |
| 11 | He is only saying that after a certain point in his life he himself did not doubt . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , you know that Tim is only saying that because he wants you to marry him . |
| 13 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 14 | This is easily said and less easily done , but it is not critical to the final working . |
| 15 | It is normally said that as one goes further up this ascent of languages , the code becomes progressively more like a natural language such as English . |
| 16 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 17 | Now then part of it is they ask me You do n't have to , but they ask me to ask people to sign erm to say It 's just to say that you do n't mind your conversation being used . |
| 18 | It 's just to say that I 'm going to Norwich for a couple of hours to buy some materials . |
| 19 | It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought . |
| 20 | he 's just saying that in a group if we look at the historical background of the language , it helps to see you know how What the strong points are of the linguistic and what we need to be bolstered on . |
| 21 | It 's a , is it in , and he 's just saying that the develop redevelopment starts in autumn ? |
| 22 | It is usually said that the introduction of NEP pacified the peasants , but the Famine had a quicker effect in this respect . |
| 23 | It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage . |
| 24 | It is usually said that in the voice from heaven at the baptism of Jesus we have an example of the bath qol . |
| 25 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 26 | Nobody 's ever said but with Kelly , people have said things to me . |
| 27 | It 's always said that Oppositions rarely win elections , Governments lose them . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's always saying that , ’ Fred told her . |
| 29 | But the thing is though d erm Aldo 's always saying that when they see the girls crying at Wellington they feel really guilty . |
| 30 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |