Example sentences of "saying [adj] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praying and saying little is just as much a way of counting on God as preaching and saying too much . |
| 2 | Right what we 're going to do is to introduce the idea of expectations right , cos what this equation 's really saying right is that farmers expect price prevailing in T minus one alright to prevails in S T right so that 's what we 're , right , in their ex their expectation of prices in T , right are based on er current prices in sort of T minus one okay and that , that is what we would call erm expectations alright . |
| 3 | Saying that is , unfortunately , much easier than calculating in hard cash terms exactly what you have lost . |
| 4 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 5 | So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption , and this mortal shall have put on immortality , then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written , Death is swallowed up in victory . ’ |
| 6 | Now I 'm not saying that is the basis because only you could supply the , the , the free associations . |
| 7 | Well what 're you saying then , what are you saying that , are you saying that is now ready ? ready ? |
| 8 | My authority for saying that is the Reader in Sociology at Queen 's University , Robert Cormack , some of whose latest findings have been discussed in this newspaper by Claire McGahan this week . |
| 9 | That confidence could feed on itself , but what will encourage industry more than anything else would be help on investment allowances , with half those taking part saying that is the one thing above all others they want to see . |
| 10 | well meaning people but I mean the reason they 're saying that is simply because they do n't like what they 're doing full stop . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying that 's right , but he took it upon himself to say ‘ You 're not taking liberties with any of our lads . ’ |
| 12 | Faced with a row of objects we do not , he said , lampooning Wittgenstein , perform appropriately by pointing to one after the other saying that 's a tree , that 's a tree , that 's a man , that 's a tree . |
| 13 | but , but then we are con , if the argument on the one hand is we should conform to what the government 's saying and I 'm saying that 's what the government says as one of the general areas we should address I ca n't be wrong both ways if you follow my drift ? |
| 14 | Just stand as close to her as you like as long as you can hear what 's she 's saying that 's the important thing . |
| 15 | Within the existing topic framework , speaker K 's saying that 's good money is an example of speaking topically , for her , but , for speaker J , the time co-ordinate within the topic framework has been narrowed down by his preceding remarks . |
| 16 | Where I 'd say right meaning I understand kind of thing but I 'm not saying that 's right I mean right . |
| 17 | The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you saying that 's why my mother ran away from here — because she was loved too much ? ’ |
| 19 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 20 | Are you now saying that 's no longer necessary ? |
| 21 | Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed . |
| 22 | I was just saying that 's what a booking form is , a schedule is n't it ? |
| 23 | And I 'm not saying that 's the reason but clearly that is er factor and and certainly some of the points we were making about distribution of traffic er on the western side of harrogate er clearly that would n't have had the benefits of providing that that connection on the western side , it would have concentrated all connections between Harrogate and Knaresborough and given rise to more concentrated local traffic effects in that area than would be the case er with an outer western er relief road . |
| 24 | Oh right okay okay so I mean are are you saying that 's about confidence ? |
| 25 | ‘ Are you saying that 's why you do n't want to take Silvia on ? |
| 26 | You know , I 'm not saying that 's the be all and end all , but it 's just one different scenario that may happen , like that . |
| 27 | it 's just a matter of him sort of saying that 's perfectly okay , I mean , you can get a copy of that or phone call from them , well , if he 's , if he 's not happy with anything , they , they 're quite willing to contact him direct |
| 28 | I do n't know what you 're saying that 's all jumbled up |
| 29 | video , I 'm saying that 's to replace the video you used cos you record programmes for Martin |
| 30 | Cos I know what he looks like it 'll be like looking at you and saying that 's Toby cos I know what you look like as well do you think ? |