Example sentences of "[pron] [is] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the substantive apple contains the lexical idea of a kind of fruit : this is its material significate , or lexeme , the import of meaning which is said of some object in the speaker 's experience . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing which is said in this room will go any further , ’ |
| 3 | Who is to say with any show of reason whether to place history or , say , political philosophy in one category or the other ? |
| 4 | It is said above that one must take one of two positions : one is that stress is not predictable by rule and must be learned word by word ( see for example Jones ( 1975 ) , sections 920–1 ) . |
| 5 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 6 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 7 | It is said by some to be more tiring physically than a paid job , by others to be less tiring : some women say it takes a greater emotional toll , others that the drain is less than other work . |
| 8 | Thus it is said in several cases that the plaintiff must have ‘ a right of property in the thing and a right of possession ’ and that unless both these rights concur the action will not lie . |
| 9 | It is said in some circles that Morrison is alive and well and living in Des Moines , so perhaps we will one day have to sit through Doors II : the Incognito Years . |
| 10 | It is said in some quarters she is being vindictive about these matters . |
| 11 | He is said by reliable sources to be negotiating with both the US and Iran for compensation to give up the business , playing one nation off against the other . |
| 12 | That Aethelberht , king of Kent , exercised authority over his brother , Eadberht , is clear from the way in which it was necessary for Ealdwulf , bishop of Rochester , to secure confirmation of a grant of land from Eadberht in 738 from Aethelberht and Nothhelm , archbishop of Canterbury , acknowledging that he had erred in not doing so sooner ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but nothing is said of any necessity to secure Aethelbald 's confirmation . |
| 13 | Note , too , that nothing is said within such analyses about forms of middle-class racism — the discussion pivots around a simple polarization between a ‘ ruling ’ and ‘ working ’ class . |
| 14 | However , when we look closely at what is said about these various gods , we find that the god chosen by ( or who chooses ) Israel is quite unlike all the others . |
| 15 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 16 | It also acknowledges its debt in what is said about electronic instruments to Repair or Replace ? |
| 17 | It should be clear from what is said above that from the purely practical classroom point of view , generative phonology has little to offer and could well create confusion . |
| 18 | I shall certainly listen carefully to what is said on that matter and give it full consideration . |
| 19 | In 3 we have discussed theories of the pragmatic interpretation of language : how people create meaning and make sense of what is said in specific circumstances . |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever is said in this room must stay between us . |