Example sentences of "say [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 2 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 3 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 4 | Say that it 's quite nippy , and jolly safe when overtaking . |
| 5 | Senior commission officials say that it is up to national governments to get a move on . |
| 6 | ‘ I speak on behalf of the Labour Party when I say that it is not , and never has been , the duty or responsibility of either a local or education authority to promote homosexuality ... |
| 7 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 8 | Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them . |
| 9 | The debate will take place today and tomorrow behind closed doors , but party insiders say that it is very unlikely that Mr Mugabe will face serious opposition . |
| 10 | I simply say that it is fairly obvious that Britain could have taken the lead in clean coal technology . |
| 11 | The King 's Cross scheme may not be perfect and I respect the views of local Members who say that it is far from perfect . |
| 12 | Cool waxing is said to be quickest , but advocates of hot wax say that it is much more efficient . |
| 13 | To Pamela 's disappointment she say that it was still the same red paperback . |
| 14 | Did n't that did n't Mr say that it was really crap |
| 15 | But experts say unless it is carefully controlled , the fish stocks and entire eco-system could be affected . |
| 16 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 17 | Koons says that it is exactly this childlike aspect that makes her vulnerable to the tacky mandarins of the porn industry , whom Koons loathes , despite the mountain of mad flesh in Made in Heaven . |
| 18 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 19 | Page 30 of the Members ' Manual says that it is not ‘ appropriate for council stationery or postal facilities to be used to indicate the party allegiance of any member or group ’ . |
| 20 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 21 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 22 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 23 | The NRA simply says that it is not the practice in the industry to assign to any scheme the costs of economic disruption during its construction . |
| 24 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 25 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
| 26 | British Coal says that it is not worried by the change because these days it considers only projects which beat 8% by a decent margin . |
| 27 | Walter says that it is probably a wedding but suggests that we investigate . |
| 28 | AT&T says that it is already using the two components in its New Generation Testing system that troubleshoots toll-free 800 number services and can pinpoint problems on up to 42 lines simultaneously . |
| 29 | Joining fees have yet to be set , but the Forum says that it is particularly looking for users to join its efforts . |
| 30 | In addition , Article 23 says that it is especially forbidden ( a ) ‘ to employ poison or poisoned weapons ’ ; ( d ) ‘ to declare that no quarter will be given ’ ; and ( e ) ‘ to employ arms , projectiles or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering ’ . |