Example sentences of "say [prep] [adj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 2 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 3 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 7 | Something of what Locke would have said to this is already contained in the Essay . |
| 8 | I think what they said in 1892 is true today … the population of Richmond , which is now about 8,500 , increases fourfold . ’ |
| 9 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 10 | All we can say for sure is that it entered the microscope , perhaps on one side , perhaps on the other , perhaps in the middle . |
| 11 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 12 | ( All you can say about that is that it 's a change from bagpipes . ) |
| 13 | I think all I can say about that is I think the introduction of the new part timer the new , two or whatever you wan na call her . |
| 14 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 15 | The kindest thing one can say of this is that , one day , we may come round to liking it . |
| 16 | All we can say in general is that there is a critical frequency , a knife-edge . |
| 17 | Well I would the only thing I can say in this is this cash , I know they said they 'd get it got in the piggy bank before the poll tax , but as they keep shouting about they 've got to put the poll tax up , they 've got no money , they they 're putting the staff off and one thing and another . |
| 18 | All I can say to that is that I have a higher opinion of your judgement than he has . |
| 19 | All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner . |