Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [is] say that " in BNC.

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1 Thus it is said that a particular decision was taken by Sir Bryan Carsberg rather than by Oftel .
2 Using Kirchhoff 's current law at the noninverting input of this trigger gives so that Hence the output switches over to the opposite saturation state from positive and negative saturation when respectively It is said that the circuit acts as a discriminator .
3 Now it is said that when in the present case the tenant entered pursuant to the agreement and paid a yearly rent he became a tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement including clause 6 which prevents the landlord from giving notice to quit until the land is required for road widening .
4 Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things .
5 Now he is saying that he killed Caesar for his greater love of Rome than for Caesar ie he killed Caesar for the ‘ general good ’ .
6 Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ?
7 In this mode of attribution young people are not spoken of as having tragic love affairs , rather it is said that ‘ they ca n't cope with physical sexual experiences ’ .
8 Then it is said that court time will be taken up by considering a mass of Parliamentary material and long arguments about its significance , thereby increasing the expense of litigation .
9 For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them .
10 This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ .
11 Therefore it is said that the situation on their return would be intolerable and pointless . ’
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