Example sentences of "[conj] say [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 2 | rather than say if it does n't arrive at a set time |
| 3 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 4 | Perhaps Mr Henderson , the United States ambassador at Teheran will convey this assurance to the Shah and say that it comes personally from me . " |
| 5 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 6 | Also , I 'd like to come over all clichéd now and say that it seems that you do get what you pay for , and while the Hohner is a very capable bass I would personally bypass this mid-price level and put the money to something else . |
| 7 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 8 | O'Conor himself has played a restored Longman and Broderip piano — one which Field favoured , and says that it produced ‘ a unique tinkling sound — no wonder he exploited those high notes . ’ |
| 9 | The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts . |
| 10 | It judged the centre , which carries out work on AIDS , infectious disease and transplant research , to be a world-class laboratory and says that it offers unique facilities to researchers in Europe such as a rhesus colony for which the microbiological status is known and typed for major histocompatibility complex , essential for transplantation studies and infectious disease research . |
| 11 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 12 | Fosse believe that the Advantage system is the first such system to be designed specifically for tennis and says that it has been its most successful introduction into the game with over 200 installations in the last four years . |
| 13 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 14 | For Cuba , Malmierca characterized the resolution as setting a date for war and said that it violated the UN Charter . |
| 15 | BellSouth Telecommunications also issued $450m of 10-year 6.25% notes non-callable for life , at $99.557% to yield 6.31% via Morgan Stanley & Co Inc as lead manager , and said that it plans to redeem two outstanding bond issues on June 7 . |
| 16 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 17 | The NCCK welcomed the decision and said that it signalled a new era of reconciliation , justice , tolerance and brotherhood . |
| 18 | Dennis Henigan , of the Legal Action Project at the Centre to Prevent Handgun Violence , called the decision a " big victory " , and said that it showed that the Second Amendment was " no threat to reasonable gun laws " . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Sawyer announced the appointment of six Cabinet ministers to his interim administration and said that it did not intend to stay in power for more than a year . |
| 20 | He started punching another young feller and we stopped the gig , and said if it continued we just were n't going to play . ’ |
| 21 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Dartford — who , as ever , was frank — did not speak any honeyed words about the inspectorate but said that it had been captured by the left in the 1960s and remained captured , and that it was a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 23 | The non-profit Open Software Foundation in Cambridge , Massachusetts has been quoted in the US press as saying that it shipped a total of 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
| 24 | The Sunday News , sister paper to the Standard , quoted the Government as saying that it welcomed criticism but would crush any attempt to change government by unconstitutional means . |
| 25 | When the 10-year defence agreement was initialled on Sept. 4 , a US Defence Department spokesman was quoted in the Washington Post of Sept. 6 as saying that it did " not in any way open the door for permanent military bases in Kuwait " . |