Example sentences of "is [adv] say that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |
| 2 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 3 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 4 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 5 | It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage . |
| 6 | It is also said that they are able to exercise an element of independent supervision over inside management . |
| 7 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 8 | Which is also to say that it is not the case that there is no connection , or that a category mistake is involved in the mere comparison . |
| 9 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 10 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 11 | Kawasaki Steel is now saying that it might have to do the same . |
| 12 | According to a report In ComputerWorld IBM is now saying that it 'll have a single micro-kernel-based operating system for OS/2 and AIX within two years , allowing users to run Unix or OS/2 applications in either environment . |
| 13 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 14 | It is often said that there can be no confidence in iniquity . |
| 15 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 16 | It is often said that you can discover a great deal about a person 's character by the books on their shelves . |
| 17 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 18 | It is frequently said that you can make statistics say what you want them to say . |
| 19 | The Board is simply saying that its own policies will also be explicitly only for companies . |
| 20 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
| 21 | It is sometimes said that our ‘ constitution ’ is now under stress as major changes occur far more rapidly than before in its written and unwritten parts . |
| 22 | It is sometimes said that whoever keeps the minutes of a meeting holds the real power and in negotiating situations there is much truth in this . |
| 23 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |