Example sentences of "says [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 2 | While the award of the Nobel Prize will , if anything , only strengthen Peking 's resolve over Tibet , it challenges Peking to honour what it says is its readiness to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama . |
| 3 | As your article ( 6 October ) says , the award challenges Peking to honour what it says is its willingness to open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama . |
| 4 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 5 | He starts by looking at DRG 's pension fund surplus , which he says is worth £25m . |
| 6 | If what he says is true , which is highly unlikely , they must visit his latrine during the hours of darkness . |
| 7 | Across the floor from Audi , Ford was making much ado of its standard anti-lock brakes on all cars sold in Switzerland , a policy Ford says is being evaluated for the UK . |
| 8 | The move follows the group 's decision to concentrate on its most profitable business , mineral water , which it says is expanding ‘ dramatically ’ throughout the world . |
| 9 | In response , Mr Burgreen undertook what he says is the most extensive study ever of the use of force by policemen . |
| 10 | The campaign is needed to fight what the People 's Daily says is ‘ a struggle between socialist and capitalist ideologies ’ . |
| 11 | Now , what the New Testament says is striking . |
| 12 | Ye gods , even when he is awake all he ever says is let's sleep on it … . ’ |
| 13 | Now what the Capitulary of Thionville actually says is : ‘ When famine or plague occurs , men should not wait for our edict but should straightway pray to God for his mercy ; as to scarcity of food in this present year , let each man help his own people as best he can , and not sell his corn at too high a price . ’ |
| 14 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
| 15 | Janet 's bedroom is painted pink , which she says is ‘ how it 's always been , I ca n't be bothered to repaint it ’ . |
| 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 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 20 | Really what he says is completely muddled , it just does n't make sense . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Barclays also has a special loan scheme which it says is particularly suitable for enterprises starting up in new technologies that involve an element of risk . |
| 23 | The winners will receive an 18-week business training course — which the foundation says is worth £5000 — at Stirling University in the autumn . |
| 24 | Comrade Preobrazhensky complains that I did not ‘ warn the reader with single word ’ : his article , he says is a ‘ theoretical analysis of the fundamental regularities of our economy ’ and not at all an analysis of ‘ the economic policy of the state ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Gary is qualified to criticise ; following in the footsteps , as it were , of Douglas Bader , one of his earlier flights involved an embarrassing thud followed by a wheelchair , which Gary says is an advantage in many ways because now he can stay aloft at great heights without getting cold feet . |
| 27 | All she says is true : Simon will blame me for everything . |
| 28 | But what Sheila says is right , is n't it ? |
| 29 | I tell you this : if anyone says to this mountain , ‘ Be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea , ’ and has no inward doubts , but believes that what he says is happening , it will be done for him ’ ( Mark 11:23 ) . |
| 30 | He intended also to attempt ‘ some play on what everybody says is characteristic , namely , vanity of power and personality ’ . |