Example sentences of "saying that we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 2 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 3 | At this stage I can not give an explanation for their presence in that Peruvian cave , beyond saying that we have found something that indicates contact with the Old World . |
| 4 | But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new . |
| 5 | ‘ They keep saying that we should apply to the RAF Benevolent Fund and it depends on whether we have got money in the bank , etc , ’ said Mrs Lennox at her home near Tadcaster , north Yorks . |
| 6 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 7 | We did n't want to pop in else your father would be saying that we 're after selling you a new hat again , knowing your weakness for hats . ’ |
| 8 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 9 | Historically it goes without saying that we have used all kinds of nature , and especially animals , for human benefit . |
| 10 | He seems to be saying that we should open ourselves up to this possibility , and that if we do not do so , we may miss something that may ultimately be much more important to us than all that science is able to capture in its net . |
| 11 | He concluded the scene by saying that we would soon be stopping at Newmarket , but that British owners should n't get off the train as they would find no races there . |
| 12 | ‘ It goes without saying that we have an obligation to pray for a just , understanding and — dare I say I — compassionate solution to the situation . |
| 13 | Referring to falling numbers in the League , she reiterated the words of our foundress , Margaret Fletcher , saying that we were still ‘ a force to be reckoned with . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Your reasoning ’ , he says , ‘ is the same as saying that we can get a rose through planting a noxious weed … |
| 15 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team . |
| 17 | He 's saying that we ought to be moving a bit up market an-l selling wines , spirits and cocktails to the 18–25 age group . |
| 18 | Many of us are saying that we 've had enough . |
| 19 | To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour . |
| 20 | I 'm not saying that we are getting there , it 's going to take time . |
| 21 | This is coming dangerously close to saying that we can not find out how the brain works until we know how the brain works ! |
| 22 | Your special on the future of Microsoft ( May 22nd ) quotes Nathan Myhrvold as saying that we need an advance on ‘ smearing ink across dead trees . ’ |
| 23 | I am saying that we are confronted , beneath a language which is often common to both parties , with two competing moral philosophies , and that the language of partnership is a mirage , a deliberate and partisan disguise for the fact that one of those philosophies holds power while the other comes from beneath the underdog . |
| 24 | So if I can open the meeting by saying that we obviously welcome questions this evening and points of view and I would like to open the meeting by asking quite clearly about how you er see best plan for the theat theatre in future and how it 's programme of facilities for the future should be programmed and planned . |
| 25 | But if we demand to be paid for it , if we demand Wages for Housework from the State , we are saying first of all that housework is work … we are saying that we women need money of our own — if we were n't forced to depend on men for money , we would n't have to put their needs before ours , to service them sexually , physically , emotionally … we say TO BRING UP CHILDREN IS WORK and we want a WAGE for all the work we do — whether cleaning offices OR homes , producing electrical parts OR babies . |
| 26 | Let us start by saying that we shall never use ‘ explaining ’ ( or ‘ explanation ’ ) and ‘ understanding ’ interchangeably . |
| 27 | Everybody else went out at 2.00 pm and at 3.00 pm Gibeau appeared , saying that we were free to go . |
| 28 | Last time I wrote for Contact I finished by saying that we hoped to go and see Miss Saigon . |
| 29 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 30 | On hearing from a parent that : something was going on in terms of a library project , he proceeded to put everything into action and got the support of the governing body … saying that we wanted to do something with our library . |