Example sentences of "[be] say [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , explain what 's been said to a close friend and keep reminding yourself that in God 's eyes you are a successful , important and useful person . |
| 2 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 3 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 4 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 5 | The other two syllables will normally be much less prominent , and be said on a level pitch . |
| 6 | It used to be said with a considerable amount of justification that you could get as far as Inspector on your own bat but after that ‘ No ’ , you needed somebody pushing you — city councillor , anything . |
| 7 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 8 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 9 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 10 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 11 | The calf is supposed to miss its mother as it might be said of a 4-year-old child . |
| 12 | Within these limits , which can not be said in a free society possessing elective legislative institutions to be narrow or constrained , judges , as the remarkable judicial career of Lord Denning himself shows , have a genuine creative role . |
| 13 | For example , if the word ‘ what ’ is said on a rising tone , ‘ what ’ , it might have a pitch movement that could be diagrammed like this : The four syllables in ‘ , what did you say ’ might be said like this : with the pitch of the syllables in the tail getting progressively higher . |
| 14 | The egocentric and performative aspects of mental and speech acts by historical individuals who use such expressions to make statements , ask questions , etc. , naturally enough , often have a direct bearing on the meaning of what is said on a given occasion , and this points to an area of phenomenological problems that needs to be carefully explored if the complexity of the problem of meaning is to be fully understood . |
| 15 | Although an ordained cleric , Hervey is said by a contemporary chronicler ( William of Rishanger ) to have been one of two standard-bearers of the men of London at the battle of Lewes in 1264 . |
| 16 | To say that someone votes Conservative is not a libel — unless it be said of a Labour MP , and in consequence , would be defamatory in its implication of personal and political hypocrisy . |
| 17 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 18 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 19 | Sir Thomas remonstrated with him , as was his duty , reminding him of his high calling and how he will be required , in accordance with royal custom , to make a match advantageous to the realm — that is to say with a foreign princess . ’ |
| 20 | These resemblances come about by single-step selection , that is to say by a single coincidence . |
| 21 | Successive Secretaries of State have stated that only by the unvarying observance of this practice is it possible to ensure that in no circumstances is anything said or not said which , by comparison with what was said on a different occasion , might imply that a warrant had or had not been issued . |
| 22 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 23 | This was said with a direct simplicity which normally would have had its appeal for Alice . |
| 24 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 25 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 26 | Its spire was said by a contemporary guide to Oxford to form ‘ a conspicuous addition to the architectural adornments of the city ’ . |
| 27 | What was said by a single inhabitant of Berchtesgaden in March 1945 was a sentiment undoubtedly close to the hearts of most Germans at this time : ‘ If we 'd have imagined in 1933 how things would turn out , we 'd never have voted for Hitler . ’ |
| 28 | Although it was said in a jocular fashion it was too much for Maura . |
| 29 | But Ember was saying with a quiet despair of his own , ‘ Or maybe chop a little off his brain to grow some cortex material for a rich man whose head 's on fire with cancer . |
| 30 | ‘ He just stops giving , ’ he was saying of a fellow actor , ‘ in the middle of a scene — what can you do ? |