Example sentences of "say that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But then they all say that at this time of year , do n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | To echo Brundle : ‘ But they all say that at this time of year , do n't they ? ’ |
| 3 | Had a word with Vic about the script and he says not to worry but they always say that at this stage , do n't they ? |
| 4 | I say that with absolute passion about a man who is my boss and my friend and with whom I am proud to serve in this Government . |
| 5 | But diplomats say that with many opposition politicians in jail and the continuing arrests , few Burmese expect the elections to affect the military 's control of the country . |
| 6 | ‘ You say that with some feeling , Wilson ? |
| 7 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 8 | We have a strong tendency to reject it — ‘ Go on , you say that to all your sales people ! ’ |
| 9 | Reynolds said , ‘ You say that of all the people who worked on the project , none of them are still here ? ’ |
| 10 | She pointed out that the programmes of study , which have statutory force , now say that for all stages reading materials should ‘ include works written in English from other cultures ’ . |
| 11 | Police made fifty arrests , mostly on drugs charges , but say that for most of the time , all they could do was watch . |
| 12 | Police say that despite new initiatives that figure is still rising . |
| 13 | People living near the site say that during last years festival their lives were made a misery . |
| 14 | To add to their guilt at this lack of self-control , some books say that from 36 weeks , pregnant women are n't likely to gain any more weight and that from 38 weeks they may even lose some ! |
| 15 | What i what is really extraordinary I think is the way as you say that in nineteen fifty fifty one , fifty one fifty two , they actually , actually changed the tax schedules so it goes not from the three percent of the bottom , from six or seven percent of the bottom and only up to twenty five percent . |
| 16 | If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing . |
| 17 | They say that in such a case you search for your mother for the rest of your life . |
| 18 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 19 | The Big Six , in their statement , say that in 1991 they spent 9% of auditing and accounting revenues — $477m — on settling and defending lawsuits , and repeat an estimate that the profession as a whole is currently facing $30bn in damages claims . |
| 20 | The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise . |
| 21 | The latter 's relations with his Welsh neighbours can not always have been good , for the Annales Cambriæ say that in 1012 he led an expedition against St David 's . |
| 22 | Protesters there say that in extreme circumstances the chemical , Butoxi-ethanol , can cause kidney and liver damage as well as birth defects . |
| 23 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 24 | So effectively Robert Harris and Noel Timms ( ‘ Backs against the wall ’ , 15 April ) turn Parkinson 's Law on its head when they say that in residential care ‘ time expands in accordance with the potentially limitless tasks which exist ’ . |
| 25 | But his parents say that after 2 litres of his favourite blackcurrent drink C-Vit , he became drunk . |
| 26 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 27 | She says that between three and four thousand people in the country have so far registered complaints about the drug with their solicitors — they will have to be examined before any action is taken to get expert advice on how probable it is that their problem was caused by the Myodil injections . |
| 28 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 29 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 30 | Apart from choosing the breed , mum says that for maximum compatibility , why do n't owners select a dog from a star sign suitable to their own ( eg Capricorn owner with a Taurean or Virgo dog ) . |