Example sentences of "say for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | OR A SAY FOR DISABLED STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS |
| 2 | What if , say for local example , the principal of the Glasgow School of Art , his leg broken while foolishly roaming the hills in the amateurish manner of town dwellers , and also brought half-dead to Castle Bewick should spy , carelessly hidden beneath a sofa-cushion , a drawing of such rare and touching brilliance that he too , broken leg notwithstanding , should limp forward , eyes blazing , the paper shaking in his hand … |
| 3 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 4 | Right , what 's , perhaps I should have started with , with the contrasting picture in which , at the level of intellect , erm , there would be no individual forms , but only forms say for human beings . |
| 5 | Those constraints have gone now , and yet Haines says for various reasons we should not expect to see future AS/400s challenging the top-end mainframe market , although it will become a stronger challenger around the low-end and middle of Enterprise System 's territory . |
| 6 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 7 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 8 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 9 | It was the first time she had actually said for certain that she would sail with me and I could not hide my joy , and Ellen , seeing that pleasure , laughed at it . |
| 10 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 11 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 12 | The same can not be said for left handers since the mean observed frequency is greater than 50 per cent . |
| 13 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 14 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 15 | A prayer was said for Iraqi soldiers , that they might die with the name of Jesus on their lips and be saved from eternal damnation . |
| 16 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 17 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 18 | I never said for sure that 's where the stuff would arrive . ’ |
| 19 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 20 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 21 | Well , because he said for obvious reasons , he said er I did n't want my name and address mentioned . |
| 22 | The work is surely from a different school , and there is nothing here to say for certain whether the original was in bronze or marble . |
| 23 | ‘ Impossible to say for certain , sir . |
| 24 | We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure . |
| 25 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend . |
| 27 | He thought Cattini must be in his mid-thirties , though it was difficult to say for sure . |
| 28 | Ted would sometimes wonder if he had n't made Pete into a kind of surrogate son to fill the hole that Shaun had left … it was impossible to say for sure , and nothing to be ashamed of anyway . |
| 29 | But I 'm not clever enough to say for sure , so I keep my mouth shut . |
| 30 | First of all , as I say , we only deal through motor traders anyway , and there is this liability that the motor trade have anyway , and obviously if if something like that has happened it 's going to occur fairly rapidly , but certainly within three months or three thousand miles , and obviously the owner of the vehicle has a redress to the dealer and obviously if there 's one of our policies on it we would probably accept liability on that , although I ca n't say for definite . |