Example sentences of "[adv] say [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 2 | Royal aides were stunned to be told yesterday of what Morton is apparently saying in the new chapter . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's altogether too much said at the Black Lion , ’ Mrs Yardley said darkly . |
| 4 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 5 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 6 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 7 | The statement of the Propaganda Minister that Hitler had a ‘ sixth sense ’ for seeing what remained hidden to ordinary mortals was sarcastically said by a young secretary to explain his choice of Italy as an ally . |
| 8 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 9 | That may seem perverse , given what we have just said about the current scene , especially since we do not ourselves believe that states are the only important actors in international relations . |
| 10 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 11 | I mean in Italy for example , you know some of the bigger clubs , you know they 're literally run by your Fiats etc. , big very very big companies , and I would say eventually , I 'm not saying in the near future , but certainly eventually , that that might happen here . |
| 12 | is something that I would not say to a French lady , something that I could say to my daughter , right ? |
| 13 | Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros . |
| 14 | They usually say to the old love about the new , ‘ I love you but am in love with her , ’ meaning that their nature is divided : their protective and uxorious souls reach out for the old love : their sexuality towards the new . |
| 15 | Venables , who freely admits he took on a huge financial burden for his 22 per cent stake , is alleged to want more say on the financial side , but Sugar prefers him to concentrate on coaching . |
| 16 | Lord Marshall had once said about the old Magnox stations that , even if they were n't economic now , there would still be ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 17 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 18 | Before concluding , there is a little more to say about the Scaevolan evidence . |
| 19 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 20 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 21 | They were on the front doorstep , or round the front doorstep , probably say on the front doorstep , trouble is they found the front doorstep on the side |
| 22 | He also says in a recent interview that the way to the ‘ universal ’ is not through ‘ foundations ’ but through ‘ reflexive critique ’ . |
| 23 | to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against . |
| 24 | In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status . |
| 25 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 26 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |
| 27 | I rather suspect that the , I even said about the strong colour of the net , I suspect , that when |
| 28 | How right you are Mr Deputy Speaker , of course I could n't go into this because it 's out of order but on the other hand I would simply say to the honourable gentleman if he looks at the basic policies , the basic flaw of the E C is it ca n't solve problems and all these new M E Ps we 're thinking of sending over I think we should bear in mind the problem , they 're going over to something where problems ca n't be solved . |
| 29 | Swayed by the drawing of her breath , the girl took a moment to dream , then said with a far-off resonance , ‘ You don ’ spell dat , ma'am , you sez it . ’ |
| 30 | He drew a deep breath , then said with a faint curl to his lip , ‘ Lucy happens to be my stepmother 's niece . ’ |