Example sentences of "say [conj] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | Pluralists do not deny such a possibility , even probability ; they simply say that theirs is the pragmatic solution to the difficult methodological problems involved in the analysis of power and interests ( discussed in chapters 3 and 4 respectively ) . |
| 3 | Such hidden assertions can easily be discovered , but it is less easy to notice two further presuppositions in the sentence : " It is possible to evaluate texts ( i.e. say that one is the 'best' ) " and " It is possible for texts to reflect social attitudes " . |
| 4 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
| 5 | Hillary 's critics also say that she is way to the left of her husband politically . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Senior commission officials say that it is up to national governments to get a move on . |
| 8 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 9 | Of course you might want to take a very purist line and say that it is bad manners to remind others of their bad manners . |
| 10 | Some say that it is because the church has neglected , in almost every generation , to create a true fellowship in Christ that we are faced with modern freemasonry or , more recently , acid house or the New Age groups . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ... |
| 12 | If people say that it is wrong that teachers should be allowed , even encouraged , to tell pupils that it is acceptable to live in a household in a particular form of sexual relationship , that goes beyond what is a proper and a responsible training for life in society . ’ |
| 13 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 14 | I have suggested that singing is a good analogy for the discovery and use of the light principle ; I would go one step further and say that it is a literal example of this process . |
| 15 | Cool waxing is said to be quickest , but advocates of hot wax say that it is much more efficient . |
| 16 | Her mother , her doctor and her psychotherapist say that it is vital for her well-being that next month she goes to the same primary school as her friends . |
| 17 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 20 | Unless such a distinction is to be found , as the defendants say that it is , in the public nature of a local authority , which has governmental powers under statute and of which the policy and activities are decided by elected councillors , I agree with that view of Morland J. In the South Hetton Coal Co. case Lopes L.J . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Choak , you say that it is unlikely that your uncle was involved with the girl Jordan , but do you know of any other woman with whom he associated ? ’ |
| 22 | Hunting is very complicated and most people do not know about hunting or how it is done so they do n't like it and say that it is cruel . |
| 23 | How can the hon. Gentleman say that it is the Government 's fault when someone does not pay taxes ? |
| 24 | I only say that it is the route of the Council of Europe that has been recognised by the Community as leading to Community membership itself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I simply say that it is fairly obvious that Britain could have taken the lead in clean coal technology . |
| 27 | I am worried when people say that it is fine to live next to a railway station but that one must never use it to its full capacity . |
| 28 | We say that it is important to the general stress erm of the structure plan . |
| 29 | we say that it is |
| 30 | 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 . |