Example sentences of "say that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 2 | Did not you hear Miss Rhymer say that it was poems , my dear ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Dot had heard Mrs Parvis say that it was a crying shame , a young fit man like that . |
| 5 | If they failed to reach agreement , the Queen would summon them and simply say that it was their business to ensure that the Queen 's government was carried on . |
| 6 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 7 | The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war . |
| 8 | To Pamela 's disappointment she say that it was still the same red paperback . |
| 9 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 10 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 11 | Did n't that did n't Mr say that it was really crap |
| 12 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 14 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 15 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 16 | Celtae was the name of one of the best units in Julian 's army ( Ammianus 20.4.2 ) , and Julian himself says that it was inconceivable to all men that a Celtic or Galatian soldier should turn his back to the enemy ( Orat. 1 , Paneg . |
| 17 | He admits that he took the vehicle , but says that it was already damaged when he got in or that it was not damaged when he left the scene and that it must have been damaged by someone who took it later . |
| 18 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 19 | The relatives of both Leofsige , abbot of Ely from 1029 to 1044 , and of Ælfwine , bishop of Elmham in Cnut 's reign , granted estates in Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to Ely when their sons entered the monastery , and the Liber Eliensis says that it was Leofsige 's own policy to accept no monk who was not well-educated and of good birth , so that the church might be enriched by liberality . |
| 20 | There 's only one , and it says that it was built in ninety one , and it was n't , it was built in ninety three . |
| 21 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 22 | He says that it was very difficult to get some of the cows out , because they were so frightened of the flames . |
| 23 | She says that it was manual work , and very hard . |
| 24 | He says that it was a great ride . |
| 25 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 26 | He says that it was a bit unfair — it may have made a difference . |
| 27 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
| 28 | He says that it was the right decision . |
| 29 | He says that it was a bit of a shock at first , now he 's got used to it . |
| 30 | He says that it was a bit of a shock at first , now he 's got used to it . |