Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been found deficient in their prescriptive capacity rather than in their analysis of the social structure of organizations ( of which they say very little ) . |
| 2 | The thing of which I say the it changes . |
| 3 | To attempt to understand human nature requires that we grasp the import of what we say . |
| 4 | She does n't understand half of what we say but she listens all the time . |
| 5 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 6 | Much of what we say in our response to the proposed National Sustainability Report is relevant to the points made in this section of Threshold 21 . |
| 7 | If we now adopt Grice 's meaning-nn as the scope of meaning in the definition of pragmatics in ( 9 ) , we shall include most of the phenomena that we want to include , like the ironic , metaphoric and indirect implications of what we say ( elements 5 , 6 and 7 in Table I.I ) , and exclude the unintended inferences that intuitively have no part to play in a theory of communication . |
| 8 | We précis the sense and give the substance of what they say . ’ |
| 9 | Figures taken from an American survey indicated that ‘ learners retain about 10% of what they read , 20% of what they hear , 30% of what they see , 50% of what they see and hear , 70% of what they say as they talk and 90% of what they say as they do a thing ’ . |
| 10 | Figures taken from an American survey indicated that ‘ learners retain about 10% of what they read , 20% of what they hear , 30% of what they see , 50% of what they see and hear , 70% of what they say as they talk and 90% of what they say as they do a thing ’ . |
| 11 | Keep your conscience clear so that when you are insulted , those who speak evil of your good conduct as followers of Christ will be ashamed of what they say . |
| 12 | The 1977 US survey also shows that most people give APRs a lower place in their actual shopping than in the more abstract terms of what they say is important with regard to disclosure . |
| 13 | ‘ You write up the more interesting parts of what they say and leave out the dull bits to do them a favour — if you like them . |
| 14 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 15 | It is more difficult , according to Lyons , tor users of such language-systems to approximate to neutral , objective statements since they must always comment on and judge the truth value of what they say ( Lyons , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Even writers working in solitude try to form some idea of the receiver of their work and adjust to it — the meaningfulness of what they say can be viewed as a measure of the success of that prediction and adjustment . |
| 17 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 18 | This might be because of what they say you are or because of what they say that some of your friends are , particularly if they do not approve of them . |
| 19 | This might be because of what they say you are or because of what they say that some of your friends are , particularly if they do not approve of them . |
| 20 | Do n't listen to half of what they say . |
| 21 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 22 | Do n't you take any notice of what they say , ’ said Melissa tartly . |
| 23 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 24 | On the other hand , your reader will be interested in your writing only to the extent that what you say is convincing ; and while a film reviewer or a famous literary theorist may be able to rely on their position or fame to guarantee the authority of what they say , you will need to rely on the quality of your argument . |
| 25 | How much of what they say is fact and how much is opinion ? |
| 26 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 27 | The sequence of what you say makes a considerable difference to success . |
| 28 | And in spite of what you say , ’ she added firmly , ‘ I wish you a happy Christmas . |
| 29 | We are all the sum of our experiences , and one person 's interpretation of what you say will be very different from that of another . |
| 30 | ‘ I understand only a little of what you say . |