Example sentences of "[be] say [prep] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group .
2 Enough has been said about this whole thing now and I just want to forget about it . ’
3 Mr. Speaker : I am sure that the Leader of the House has listened carefully and will have noted what has been said on this important matter .
4 Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will contrive to listen to what I am saying on this complicated matter .
5 He is less intense than Abbado , and sometimes by that much the less effective ; but his tactful phrasing , his light , well-balanced response to what the characters are saying at any given moment , and perhaps most of all to the expressive colour in the scoring , is wholly admirable .
6 It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view .
7 There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view .
8 But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’
9 The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France .
10 Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ?
11 The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence .
12 That is not being said by any other country or Government in the Community .
13 So as I say there is clearly a substantial er factual dispute between the parties as to what was said on these relevant telephone conversations .
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