Example sentences of "be saying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What will Sellafield be saying about this mud in ten years time ? ’ |
| 2 | What they seem to be saying about outcomes of adoption is quite positive but nevertheless we should be warned that the heady days of ‘ no child is unadoptable ’ are in the past . |
| 3 | Therese said , ‘ Mon petit , the people who talk do n't matter , I was n't thinking of them , I was thinking of your mother , of what they might be saying about her . ’ |
| 4 | Trying to ignore what they might be saying about her , she held on to silence as her only control . |
| 5 | And now finally — as we always seem to be saying at the conclusion of our news bulletins — perhaps I can be allowed one or two serious observations . |
| 6 | Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ? |
| 7 | How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ? |
| 8 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 9 | ‘ We should be saying to the Secretary of State : ‘ If you want fees say so , go to the electorate and ask them . ’ |
| 10 | Many people at the church will be saying to Mrs Patient and her family , ‘ I do miss your husband , he was so good to me , ’ and whereas this makes the family feel warm it also makes them feel disturbed . |
| 11 | Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ? |
| 12 | Perhaps : will probably be saying to yourself ‘ 4 + 6 — 10 ; + 9 = 19 … ’ and so on . |
| 13 | What are the farmers in the drawing likely to be saying to one another when they meet at market ? |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 16 | There will be a lot of people in the House of Lords who will be saying to the Queen ‘ stand your ground ’ . |
| 17 | We need to hear what the Lord may be saying to us in all of this and be open to the challenge of church planting and the support of other fellowships around us . |
| 18 | They 'll be saying to themselves : we felt it up there , how much will Rangers feel it down here ? |
| 19 | Erm you find that more and more constant repetition , each time you go back to it , there 's less that you 've forgotten , less that seems new and more that seems obvious and you 'll be saying to yourself , sort of m You know of course Yeah I do n't need to read this , tat 's obvious that 's obvious . |
| 20 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 21 | Also the person who has helped us sort out maybe come to sensible engineering conclusion on the minor problem , but be saying to his chief , there was a problem with the York though I just managed to sort it out . |
| 22 | When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 23 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 24 | If you go back seven or eight years ago er the city institutions would be saying to the companies , you know this is a er a major matter in the in the growth of the company and you need you need city representation , you need a firm of city lawyers to deal with it . |
| 25 | And this may well be something which we should be saying to the priest |
| 26 | what are they gon na be saying to those new recruits about the dangers of bullying ? |
| 27 | Yes but forgive me you must listen to what 's said to you because somebody might be saying to you Lawrence is under the bed . |
| 28 | Er of tory council and policy perhaps we would not have to be saying to our tenants that we must raise you rents by nine point four percent this year and let's not forget seventeen nine , I think seventeen point six percent last year that were government guidelines . |
| 29 | A scorcher of a free kick from Paul Simpson made it 3-2 and the fourth ; well if you were Newcastle manager , Ossie Ardiles what would you be saying to goalkeeper , Tommy Wright after this ? |
| 30 | That 's what Brian Horton and his Oxford men will be saying to themselves tomorrow , when they face Leicester City at Filbert Street . |