Example sentences of "say [conj] it [is] not " 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 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 ... |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Popek says that it 's not clear that WABI solves the critical question of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 15 | Popek says that it 's not clear that Wabi solves the critical problem of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 16 | Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him . |
| 17 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 18 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 19 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs . |
| 20 | Given that we may have yet more to learn about human reproduction , it must be said that it is not a case of ‘ views ’ which may or may not be right . |
| 21 | The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries . |
| 22 | The extent of the duty to state reasons thus varies according to the nature and context of the measure in question , and it may be said that it is not required to go into matters of detail to a disproportionate extent . |
| 23 | But it needs to be said that it is not a belief that Richards himself takes for granted . |
| 24 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 25 | He says if it 's not cut down it literally chokes the jungle and so every four or five years the mangrove is cut and then it grows again like a blackthorn or hawthorn hedge would grow . |
| 26 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |
| 27 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 28 | And I 'm sure that that 's part of why sounds pretty good when he 's saying that it 's not the body that makes us who we are , it 's not the body that matters . |
| 29 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Knight and would go further in saying that it is not credible that a karate chop to the base of the nose could cause a fracture of the anterior cranial fossa without considerable damage to the nasal structure . ’ |