Example sentences of "saying [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 2 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this . |
| 4 | ‘ What we are saying is that the ITC will put up the name . |
| 5 | When it comes down to it , all you 're saying is that the likes of Tina Turner and Mick Hucknall have created a bloated travesty of soul . |
| 6 | What I 'm saying is , ‘ Here am I sitting in a tin can ’ sounded exactly like a Simon and Garfunkel record , and the rest of the song was lifts from everything else . |
| 7 | What it is saying is in fact very simple . |
| 8 | What I am saying is this . |
| 9 | What I 'm saying is that he would n't have taken her out into the woods . |
| 10 | Frequently the perhaps unconscious arrogance of presenters invokes their saying to those they are interviewing , ‘ What you are saying is … ’ rather than ‘ Are you saying that .. ? ’ |
| 11 | Thus when the theist says ‘ regularity in nature is evidence of God 's existence ’ , Ayer replies : ‘ All you are saying is that there 's regularity in nature ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ What you are saying is more obfuscatory than explanatory , ’ Catherine said crossly . |
| 13 | All they 're saying is ‘ a HUGE , absolutely HUMONGOUS quantity of MONEY ! ! ! ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ What I 'm saying is do n't make yourself easy , Jo … ’ |
| 15 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 16 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 17 | What I am saying is not that culling is necessarily the right thing , but that these are genuine detailed practicable problems which must not be dismissed , as if they were easy , by solutions of the kind that I have just suggested . |
| 18 | And they do for 5–10 minutes , then he speaks out of the silence , ‘ and I know what he is saying is of the Holy Spirit — it resonates so clearly in me and rings true ’ . |
| 19 | So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire . |
| 20 | What Mrs Gamp is saying is that Mrs Harris was told , to reassure her , that the howls she could hear ( which were , in fact , being emitted by her husband ‘ bein' took with fits ’ ) were the noise of barrel-organs in the street . |
| 21 | What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life . |
| 22 | What they are saying is : we are not going to have any future , ’ says Charles Correa , a leading Bombay architect . |
| 23 | What environmentalists are saying is that change should not be made for the benefit of a few and to the detriment of many . |
| 24 | All I 'm saying is that worry can make you thin . ’ |
| 25 | What we are saying is — it was organised . ’ |
| 26 | What is appropriate is first to desire to love your local church ; second , get alone with God and see what he wants to say to the church ; third , to begin to express this in your housegroup : ‘ I feel what God is saying is … . ’ |
| 27 | What I 'm saying is important . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 . |
| 29 | And what he 's saying is that his ‘ Number One ’ guitar , the one this Fender reissue is modelled upon , was basically a cobbled-together rat guitar . |
| 30 | All that needs saying is that Mould is back with a razor sharp cleaver , a new band , a re-tuned view of the uneven-ness of life . |