Example sentences of "be say [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | know I know it 'll be say thirtyish percent . |
| 2 | It could be said that scripture 's view of the Devil and the evil spirits is mythological . |
| 3 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 4 | I am satisfied that it can not be said that section 6(2) is unworkable if the words of that provision are given their wide general meaning . |
| 5 | But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire . |
| 6 | It could not , then , be said that and combine freely with other consonants in forming consonant clusters ; this is particularly noticeable in initial position . |
| 7 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 8 | The inspector coughed apologetically and placed his hands together , uncertain how best to say what had to be said next . |
| 9 | 2.33 Something must be said next about claims by parents for the death of their adult children . |
| 10 | Jimmy carters relationship with and feelings towards the Shah were , it must be said ambiguous . |
| 11 | Would n't be saying bloody Italians would I ? |
| 12 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |
| 13 | They should be standing here now as the party of high taxation , and saying sorry to the people of Wiltshire for supporting Kenneth Clarke and his team , for supporting John Major and his team , and they should be saying sorry for the part that we pa played in lying to the electorate at the last general election . |
| 14 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 15 | People used always to be saying that about her . |
| 16 | ‘ Ar , hey , ’ Vi said uneasily , ‘ do n't be saying that , queen . |
| 17 | ‘ You wo n't be saying that tomorrow . ’ |
| 18 | I could be saying that to sell the house , but I said it is . |
| 19 | I 'd be saying that fucking it ! , she does n't say that she 's sort of been he 's still |
| 20 | ‘ You will be saying next that that is what they are doing in France . |
| 21 | I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic . |
| 22 | And I 'd just like to raise this now because I 'll be saying more when we get to seventeen . |
| 23 | erm Professor Ron Dore is going to talk a bit about when education should stop and I suspect will be saying some of the things that you 've already hinted at , and then later on Professor Colin Lacey will be talking about some aspects of teachers and teaching and training of teachers , and I suspect he will have something to say about mobility of teachers and careers of teachers as , as well . |
| 24 | ‘ Ought you to be saying this , dear ? |
| 25 | Crook added : ‘ People might be saying this is the beginning of the end of our challenge , but There 's such a lot more to come from us . |
| 26 | The staff here maybe I should be I should n't be saying this the staff are finding it very difficult I mean what I 'm trying to say is for goodness sake eyes should be opened . |
| 27 | I never thought I 'd be saying this but I 'm now the proud owner of my very first home . |
| 28 | Er today about the sa So if you see one you 'll be saying this is the chuchet storm . |
| 29 | But I 'm not I 'm not in the frame of mind to be saying this kid was off for a week with flu then and was off |
| 30 | It seems to be saying this is entirely a matter for the profession . |