Example sentences of "in saying [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is involved in saying that something exists in its own right , while something else does not ? |
| 2 | The smallness of the demonstration , compared with the Dungannon march , showed the modest scale of the organisers , influence , although McCann is probably right in saying that they made a mistake in starting it in hostile territory . |
| 3 | The most interesting aspect of the affair , however , is the very swift growth of the cult of St Edward , something which his assassins may have foreseen , if Archbishop Wulfstan is correct in saying that they burnt the corpse , presumably in an attempt to destroy remains which might become relics . |
| 4 | At one time , I think I 'm right in saying that they had two hundred people . |
| 5 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 6 | You wrote on a dreadful wet day , and I feel very smug in saying that we have had very little rain for about 2 months now . |
| 7 | The pagan contemporaries of Constantine were not wrong in saying that he had carried through a huge religious and social revolution . |
| 8 | Peter Lovesey , whose Victorian police procedural novels featuring Sergeant Cribb are fine examples of this branch of the art , has summed it up neatly in saying that he sees himself writing books that are " a counterpoise of teacups and terror " . |
| 9 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 10 | And since nineteen eighty two , am I right in saying that you 've worked at the law centre in ? |
| 11 | Am I right in saying that you 've also been very you 've also changed with the times as well , and adjusted |
| 12 | Am I right in saying that you see erm the problems of areas such as this as being extremely urgent something done now ? |
| 13 | That is one reason why I have no hesitation in saying that I support Stagecoach also . |
| 14 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 15 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 16 | I just wondered , colleagues if Azil Nadir of Polly Peck fame currently I understand sunbathing in Northern Cyprus would be prepared to say how proud he is to be associated with the Tories of course in saying that I do include Michael Mates , and I just wondered whether or not this watch he sent was in fact a Timex watch . |
| 17 | I think that I am not alone in saying that I have not properly done my job of examining in detail some of the legislation which has come before us . |
| 18 | So what , what , what could it am I right in saying that it 's related to the , the work that you 're doing is related to the particular circumstances the particular problems that people living in flats have had ? |
| 19 | I think I 'm right in saying that she drew a very short straw and is the first reading in the Lords of the bill to privatise the railways . |
| 20 | Now , am I right in saying that there has been some controversy in the past about hormone replace , let's call it H R T , it 's shorter , that er that not everyone 's convinced it 's it 's it 's a good idea , that there are maybe some negative side effects . |