Example sentences of "say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 32 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 33 | Can the same be said of military firing at those times ? |
| 34 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 35 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 36 | On poll tax , he says with due modesty : ‘ There is nothing attractive in politics about the language of ‘ I told you so . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ The reaction I got from the Twin Cities race was really out of proportion , ’ he says with appropriate modesty . |
| 38 | ‘ I 've had a good crack , ’ he says with unconscious irony . |
| 39 | ‘ All I have to do is get through the trials , ’ he says with ironic humour . |
| 40 | Miss B : ( Thinks , ‘ Inquisitive old so-and-so ’ — but says with charming smile : ) Of course I do n't mind , but that 's something I do n't discuss . |
| 41 | ‘ We 've had such a lot of fun with her , ’ Pauline says with obvious affection . |
| 42 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 43 | She gets her reply from one of the players : " crablouse " ( said with Creole pronunciation , but by a speaker who anyway has a Jamaican accent ) . |
| 44 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 45 | The frequent remark that ‘ it was all so much simpler under communism ’ is not always said with total irony . |
| 46 | For example , if all syllables are said with low pitch except for one said with high pitch , then the high-pitched syllable will be heard as stressed and the others as unstressed . |
| 47 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 48 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 49 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 50 | ‘ She can twist me round her little finger ’ , is said with glowing pride . |
| 51 | ‘ Too long , ’ Bicker said with quiet savagery , burying his eyes in the fire . |
| 52 | Family prayers must have been said with particular fervour that night but it was n't only the dramatic episode that drove Ella Burrows to her knees . |
| 53 | The argument says in pure training terms is that that one is the best , because it actually says that training will be able to complete the form . |
| 54 | Secretary of State Peter Lilley says in future help should be targetted at those with the greatest needs |
| 55 | But , the notebook says in legible writing , oaf was being investigated by the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down . |
| 56 | It was only said in good fun , nothing malicious . |
| 57 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 58 | Indeed , Hobbes says , ‘ I believe that scarce anything can be more absurdly said in natural philosophy , than Aristotle 's Metaphysics . ’ |
| 59 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |
| 60 | ‘ It is too good to be true ’ , he is reported to have said in astonished delight , for he now had in Paris the new French Sixth Army , and Kluck , by his change of direction , would shortly expose his right flank and rear to shattering attack from the west . |