Example sentences of "say [prep] they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 2 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 3 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 4 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 5 | I 've done that , cos what I 've said to them is well it 's , it 's too much for you to do all the extensions together . |
| 6 | Well was n't Dawn saying about they 're going to go to France this year or something ? |
| 7 | All that we had to say to them was that we intended to tax them more severely . |
| 8 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 9 | And all he could say to them was ! |