Example sentences of "you [be] say [be] " in BNC.

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1 A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense .
2 Frequently the perhaps unconscious arrogance of presenters invokes their saying to those they are interviewing , ‘ What you are saying is … ’ rather than ‘ Are you saying that .. ? ’
3 Thus when the theist says ‘ regularity in nature is evidence of God 's existence ’ , Ayer replies : ‘ All you are saying is that there 's regularity in nature ’ .
4 ‘ What you are saying is more obfuscatory than explanatory , ’ Catherine said crossly .
5 What you are saying is ridiculous .
6 I 've said to my brother Roman Catholic if what you are saying is that the substance of the godhead is in a mystery transferred into our substance that is to say that we are recipitents recipients in the sacrament of the divine life then we go out in faith together believing the same essential .
7 ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’
8 Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right .
9 So , Mr Silver , what you are saying is that NOW we have money spare ( minus a class player … but a minor point ) .
10 But what you are saying is you 're not going to give it for free ?
11 Well the national account what you are saying is the national account if the work 's for is then responsible for all those accounts that happen to be from the national account manager .
12 It 's a question of just choosing and what you are saying is that you can increase you payback , if I could put it that way , by choosing numbers which are for whatever reason less popular with some people , simply because the payback is larger on those days .
13 When it comes down to it , all you 're saying is that the likes of Tina Turner and Mick Hucknall have created a bloated travesty of soul .
14 So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire .
15 Men do n't usually conduct loud , enthusiastic duologues about rural delights ( not English men , anyway ) and it was even more unusual to hear someone butt in with ‘ Excuse me , I could n't help overhearing , and what you 're saying is absolute rubbish . ’
16 What you 're saying is you 'd like to see more amateur productions ?
17 ‘ I mean , if you believe that , then what you 're saying is women basically do n't want sex , but if they have enough food stuffed down their faces , they might be persuaded .
18 ‘ So what you 're saying is that Bernard 's the only person who knows when the hit on Mobuto 's going to take place ? ’
19 What you 're saying is
20 ‘ I know what you 're saying is right , Eve , but I 'm not sure I 'm man enough to do what you suggest . ’
21 So essentially , what you 're saying is we 've got the erm the sort of environmental checks in place , to help
22 But what you 're saying is that when you accelerate — when you go faster and faster in an upwards direction — as you did coming out of that big drop — it 's like adding extra gravity .
23 So y what you 're saying is that sixty three percent of patients in America presenting with B P H have a flow rate above fifteen a and voiding pressure below fifty , right ?
24 So so wha , what what you 're saying is , it 's all just nonsense ?
25 So so what you 're saying is it was not related that credit was refused , not because of that fact that say people were actually on benefits , cos er the same person actually somewhere else would would probably get It 's the very fact they actually live in the flats , that actually has largely accounted for people not being able to get credit .
26 So what you 're saying is that erm as most people are s such a high percentage of people in the flats , have pr have erm serious problems , it means it 's basically th basically that all all their energy goes into actually trying
27 So you so you would n't vo So what you 're saying is woul
28 ‘ What you 're saying is , these three fucking murderers we 've got in cold storage have all committed crimes identical to ones committed by Peter Lawton , Mathew Bryce and Trevor Magee , right ?
29 ‘ What you 're saying is , ’ she said , ‘ that one should n't even whisper it in the wind on the hill-tops because once said a thing can never be unsaid ; that expression gives power to thought ; that even the clear though unspoken formulation of a nebulous impression may be dangerous , giving it a force and potency which silence or merely a lack of clarification would deny to it . ’
30 If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married .
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