Example sentences of "say [conj] it [is] [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 | But experts say unless it is carefully controlled , the fish stocks and entire eco-system could be affected . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Walter says that it is probably a wedding but suggests that we investigate . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Joining fees have yet to be set , but the Forum says that it is particularly looking for users to join its efforts . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Professor Simmonds is correct when he says that it is very hard to isolate the part played by railways in the growth of towns and the development of the countryside from all the other economic and social factors of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Despite launching those 40 new ValuePoint models , IBM Corp says that it is still supply-constrained on the earlier models of ValuePoint but that supply will be strong for the new models : ‘ Demand continues to outstrip supply with the models we currently have on the market , ’ said Angelica Horaitis , director of value brands at the IBM Personal Computer Co ; she says IBM has learned and is ready with the new ones . |