Example sentences of "say [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For non-Hindi households , English is now the weapon which will enable them to have a sufficient say in national administrative affairs . |
| 2 | For example I can see a good case for a local headmaster being a member of the authority , representing educational concerns or for some representations say from significant ethnic groups within the area , but these can be identified and appointed by the authorities themselves , whose local knowledge will lead to far more accurate selection than Whitehall or Whitehall inspired sources . |
| 3 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 4 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 5 | Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes . |
| 6 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 8 | Birse says under Labour local council receipts from the sale of council houses may be released to enable more council houses to be built , and this could help the industry , particularly local builders . |
| 9 | I accept everything that has been said by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the need for a stronger line against terrorism . |
| 10 | Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget . |
| 11 | I never said for sure that 's where the stuff would arrive . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 13 | The idea of reparation has come very much to the fore in discus-sions about punishment in recent years , and we shall have more to say about various reparative forms of punishment in Chapter 7 . |
| 14 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , we 'ave , 'ave we ? ’ she said with typical cockney pertness . |
| 16 | ‘ He trusted no one , ’ she said with sudden muted violence , and paled at the bitter sound of her own voice . |
| 17 | ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ THE SUBURBAN BOOK OF THE DEAD ’ it said in nice big letters . |
| 19 | ‘ A lovely lass , ’ he said in warm Northern tones , reminiscent of an ad for John Smith 's best bitter . |
| 20 | ‘ You killed her ! ’ he said in cold accusing tones . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't the first idea , ’ he said in deliberate clipped tones . |
| 22 | he said in excellent American . |
| 23 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 24 | I said to Old Fishy do you have kids and he said yes they 're the apple of my eye and we just hugged each other right there in front of everyone and ever since I 've been wondering what it means . |
| 25 | A. J. Swines , it said on high brown doors that were standing open so that lorries could pass in and out . |
| 26 | What do they say about lovely old ladies ? |
| 27 | The sign should n't say anything about the roads , instead it should say in huge luminous letters : ‘ Island People Are Different ’ . |
| 28 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |