Example sentences of "saying [conj] there [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Now I offer that as a little illustration of the difficulties of saying that there are deep national dispositions between one nation and another , which exist inside in some sort of permanent , rock-like way .
2 IN spite of all the encouragement handed out by England in the shape of team trips here and there , it goes without saying that there are always individuals who , at the end of the day , will feel that they have not had a fair crack of the whip .
3 This might lead us to conclude that in the case where taxes can not bear the additional charges resulting from depreciation accounting ( which is another way of saying that there is not the political will to impose them ) , in order to retain control of the charge to revenue accounts , the existing system will remain .
4 It seems the supplier is saying that there is n't a fault at all , leaving the onus on you to establish that there is .
5 De Maistre is saying that there is surely a contradiction between the revolutionary dogma that all men are born equal and the observed fact of cultural diversity .
6 Er er and er I 'm not saying that there is necessarily , but even if there was she 's not going to because she wants to preserve her , her referrals .
7 J. H. Eaton , a magistrate , declared : ‘ It almost goes without saying that there is hardly a case that comes before our courts , to which the natives are parties , in which this crime [ perjury ] is not more or less freely indulged . ’
8 Nowadays we are justified in saying that there is only a difference of intensity between this school and the manifestations which preceded it . ’
9 Yes , I mean I 'm saying that there 's obviously open land within built-up areas .
10 It 's interesting , you 're talking about our first caller who was saying that there was just too much television coverage
11 I 'm not saying that there was n't an expectation that there would be a gradual move in there , and ultimately we would suffer and we would lose that level of grant .
12 You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie .
13 Here he bade me stay , saying that there was only the laboratory overhead , and that he did not wish me to enter there .
14 There was evidently a lot of preliminary discussion about the scheme among staff in schools , with only 5 per cent saying that there was only little .
15 Somebody mind you was on about Torbay this morning on the radio I think it was saying that there were so many complaints and nurses are under such great stress .
16 In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side .
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