Example sentences of "say [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you say during a political campaign is the concrete foundation of it . |
| 2 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 3 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 4 | One must be a little careful with the word ‘ translation ’ here : it is fairly innocuous in the present context of WALK , translated into the string of sub-functions , but much less so in the earlier use of the relation of a program in LISP , say into a lower-level program in machine code . |
| 5 | We 're there for , to give the help and advice that people need on the day to day living , er because a person with say with a respiratory illness , er would need a lot of benefits er they , their lifestyle has to change , and often their home and adaptation has to change with , around it . |
| 6 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 7 | It is possible to provide motivation and to see that students are actively involved , say in a practical exercise during which they receive feedback as to their progress . |
| 8 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 9 | Say in a locked room with no witnesses . |
| 10 | They heard her say in a bright voice : ‘ Good morning , James . |
| 11 | each the same sort of components , the same components are each colour say in a red individual they 'd all be pinky red colours and in a blue individual they 'd all be a blue colour |
| 12 | Say in a five-seat district 100 votes are cast : Blue 38 , Red 32 , White 17 , Green 13 . |
| 13 | Strangle the fury and say in a sweet , gentle voice : ‘ Thank you very much for ringing me . ’ |
| 14 | It is basically identical to Tit for Tat except that , once in a while , say on a random one in ten moves , it throws in a gratuitous defection and claims the high Temptation score . |
| 15 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 16 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 17 | If a block of Pycoma were lit simultaneously all over the top surface , say by a fast-running sheet-fuse , the combustion zone would travel slowly down through the block . |
| 18 | Although , since she 'd once experienced the so-called ‘ real thing ’ — a wild , tempestuous tide of overwhelming emotion and desire , which had brought her nothing but misery and unhappiness — well , maybe there was something to be said for a warm , calm and friendly relationship … ? |
| 19 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 20 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 21 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 22 | To say that someone votes Conservative is not a libel — unless it be said of a Labour MP , and in consequence , would be defamatory in its implication of personal and political hypocrisy . |
| 23 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 24 | Indeed their background as Greek intellectuals would have made it nonsensical to them to have said of a particular item in our world ( a particular human being ) that he was ‘ God ’ . |
| 25 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 26 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 27 | The same can not be said of a generalised advance disclosure . |
| 28 | The calf is supposed to miss its mother as it might be said of a 4-year-old child . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't worry , boy , ’ he says with a small grin , ‘ we 'll fix it in a jiff . ’ |
| 30 | And then she says with a faint show of importance , ‘ Of course the people here simply love me for it . |