Example sentences of "[adj] say [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that it helps them to study , but do n't accept that . |
| 2 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 3 | The employment White Paper was published under a coalition dominated by Conservatives and Labour , but it was not the result of discussion within each party , and although leading politicians on both sides endorsed its policy it would be wrong to say that it reflected the considered view of either party . |
| 4 | Consequently , it is wrong to say that it has a grammatical function . |
| 5 | Of course , if one has the belief one would indeed be prepared to say that it does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life , but that is not what one is saying here and now . |
| 6 | The government has been quick to say that it plans to continue the economic policies that have pleased businessmen and kept the country relatively well-off . |
| 7 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 8 | Leigh Environmental says that it has considered the inspector 's report on the Doncaster site and has ‘ nothing more to say ’ on the matter . |
| 9 | On second thoughts , it might be better to say that it goes without saying that linguistic communication is a matter of conveying ideas or thoughts . |
| 10 | On El Salvador and Guatemala , Amnesty International said that it had " overwhelming evidence " that the Army and police were responsible for most of the kidnappings and political murders attributed to death squads . |
| 11 | In a press release issued on Feb. 21 the human rights organization Amnesty International said that it had continued to receive reports of the use of torture and of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia since the start of the Gulf war . |
| 12 | But you all said that it depends on his skill or his what 's his name |
| 13 | " Actual " seems to mean " more than trivial " though Taylor v Granville [ 1978 ] Crim LR 482 said that it covered any harm , however slight . |
| 14 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 15 | It would be more accurate to say that it shows the decline of community and public practices . |
| 16 | O'Connell says the company was proud to say that it had won Posix-compliance and it now hopes to gain X/Open 's XPG branding . |
| 17 | The Financial Times of Jan. 23 said that it had reflected " the life breathed into local politics " by the direct elections to some Legco seats in September 1991 [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 18 | It is fair to say that it has the sweep and scope of an encyclical . |
| 19 | On the one hand , one is inclined to say that it gets the relation of theory to reality the wrong way round . |
| 20 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 21 | That is why , on the costing basis , we are right to say that it represents another 10p in the pound on basic income tax . |
| 22 | It is too strong to say that it has been corrupted — after all , James I dished out so many knighthoods ( 2,600 ) that the Venetian ambassador to London thought the knights ‘ no longer distinguishable from common people ’ — but at best it is dull . |
| 23 | And we do provide you with sales literature to say well actually strange to say but it has gone up recently it is only fifty eight pounds a week . |
| 24 | They each said that it suited them , that kind of relationship . |
| 25 | While the combined effect of a number of cases had been to limit the audi alteram partem principle , it would be misleading to say that it had been wholly forgotten . |
| 26 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 27 | International Telecom Japan Inc says that it intends to start a leased line service between Japan and Moscow this summer , becoming the only alternative on the route to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp : it has teamed up with Russian satellite services company RSCC . |
| 28 | Pascal goes some way towards this recognition when he observes : ‘ I see , in truth , that the same words are applied on the same occasions , and that every time two men see a body change its place , they both express their view of this same fact by the same word , both saying that it has moved ; and from this conformity of application we derive a strong conviction of a conformity of ideas . |
| 29 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 30 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |