Example sentences of "saying it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 2 | Sir Adrian points out : ‘ It is n't a question of just saying it 's A or B. There are any number of stations between A and B you have to examine . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , by the way , we 've got another one of your statues with no eyes in and everybody 's saying it 's made you go blind , know what I mean ? take no notice luv they 're only jealous . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying it 's hard work , like working on a farm , but they certainly do n't give everything to you on a silver platter , ’ she added as her name was called for yet another fitting . |
| 5 | You 're saying it 's just a place where you 're happy . ’ |
| 6 | I want to tell them I 'm going to Drama School , but I ca n't stand the look on their faces , the thought of their whining voices saying it 's not a suitable occupation for their darling daughter . ’ |
| 7 | And are you really saying it 's sabotage ? |
| 8 | You 're always saying it 's antisocial for people to have second homes or leave property empty . |
| 9 | Laney suggest you simply remove the speaker jack when using headphones , but surely this is like saying it 's okay to point an empty gun ; forgetting to re-connect the speaker can prove disastrous on some amps , and inexperienced guitarists should be dissuaded from the habit from early on . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying it 's no longer important to win , it is , but then it was really vital . |
| 11 | The Hollywood Reporter sent me a note saying it 's the 25th Anniversary of James Bond , would you like to take out an ad . |
| 12 | ‘ The Thing 's saying it 's not just a machine , it 's a sort of … a sort of collection of electric thoughts that live in a machine . |
| 13 | Today , even if you have n't got it , oh-so-egalitarian America is saying it 's OK to flaunt it . |
| 14 | I 've taken as much stick as praise since the line started in June , with people saying it 's not real recycling . |
| 15 | JUDGES are notorious for being out of touch with the world but Judge John Lee must win the Legal Ass of the Year award for saying it 's a woman 's function to upset men . |
| 16 | ‘ Wo n't folk be saying it 's us , not Allan Lamb , who are bringing the game into disrepute by acting out a lie and covering up for Pakistan 's bowlers ? |
| 17 | The papers are saying it 's between John Redwood , George Young and Stephen Dorrell . |
| 18 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm I 'm not not saying it 's reasonable . |
| 20 | Right I am saying it 's people that I 've spoken to . |
| 21 | People keep saying it 's going to take time before I get back to where I was , but I want it to happen sooner . |
| 22 | and so you know it is a sort of , I mean it 's exactly what Iris is saying it 's a meeting with minds in a way because we need to know that , that |
| 23 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 24 | So you 'd name this as butane in other words , you 're saying it 's a butane chain you take off the E you will add O L and if there are positional isomers possible you have to indicate the position one O L butane one L one O L butane one O L. |
| 25 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
| 26 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
| 27 | Well I was n't sure whether Paul was saying it 's gon na be held up because of that ? |
| 28 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 29 | And I think what 's getting to me tonight , they 're all saying it 's a problem , and it 's tired , I mean , so is life ! |
| 30 | And now the hunt are turning round and they 're lying about what they 're doing , they 're saying it 's pest control , they 're saying , we do it , it 's quick , it 's a sharp nip in the back of the neck . |