Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff here maybe I should be I should n't be saying this the staff are finding it very difficult I mean what I 'm trying to say is for goodness sake eyes should be opened . |
| 2 | Sorry I should n't be saying because I was Incidentally , I did n't say to you that when they transcribe it , if a name comes up they , they just write erm do you want a cup of tea , name ? |
| 3 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 4 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
| 5 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 6 | As you look at the above diagram of the learning cycle you may well be saying to yourself ‘ Is that all there is to it ? |
| 7 | ‘ You might not be saying that when the refugees come back from Australia , ’ Fergus said sourly . |
| 8 | And you wo n't be saying anything to that ponce of a boss you 've got , Howard ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You wo n't be saying that if we have to close the factory and put everybody out of work . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You wo n't be saying that tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | If it is n't then what we should then be saying is no week time over no week time work and just all work Saturdays if you see what I 'm getting at . |
| 12 | But if it were an ancient castle standing there against the skyline , if what we looked out at tomorrow morning was a row of turrets , we 'd probably be saying how magnificent it is . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’ |
| 14 | " You 'll be coming back here now and then ; we sha n't be saying good-bye to you . |
| 15 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 16 | In such a situation , the participants may , in fact , ‘ speak topically ’ , but they might also be said to be speaking on a topic . |
| 17 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 18 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 19 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 20 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 21 | Some of Freud 's patients became more rational in their understanding of their problems , and they could therefore be said to be nearer than non-patients to the standard Freud held up as worthy of human beings . |
| 22 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 23 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 24 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 25 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 26 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 27 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 28 | Clark simply refuses to allow that such behaviour by a creature lacking language transforms the content of what they can properly be said to fear or be distressed at . |
| 29 | The mode of economic production prevalent in a society may be very different from the mode of ideological production , but they can still be said to share certain ingredients . |
| 30 | Such combinations constitute formulaic patterns which are indeed of very frequent occurrence in language use and need to be accounted for ( as I mentioned in Chapter 3 ) but they can hardly be said to represent the total language to be taught . |