Example sentences of "be say with " in BNC.

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1 He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds .
2 Much of what has been said with reference to TV also applies to radio .
3 But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ .
4 Enough has been said with regard to the bass line in the preceding example to indicate the kind of procedure suitable in cases of this kind .
5 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 .
6 Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I probably will repeat some of the things that have already been said with regard to community arts .
7 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 .
8 Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress .
9 I 'm still having a bit of difficulty reconciling those what you 're saying with those sorts of lines put to us previously .
10 er obviously what you 're saying with it 's already in use and we ca n't have it ?
11 You can be more empathic with your children by attending to what they are saying with an ear tuned to the hidden messages ( the ‘ subtext ’ ) .
12 Mr Petrakov is one of the band of influential economists who have made the mental leap to the market ( ‘ We need a normal , civilised market , ’ he says ) , and have been saying with growing urgency that Mr Gorbachev must join them , and bring the country with him .
13 Well I thought it was interesting , the boss said yesterday at partnership board , and I suspect he been saying with David , that erm you know , the gap in provision for careers education and guidance in North Yorkshire , is training teachers .
14 This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying .
15 What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style .
16 Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance .
17 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 .
18 How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so .
19 The one thing that can be said with certainty about mildew is that it is unpredictable .
20 The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe .
21 7.13 > 2.63 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of alternative candidates within the domain of banking .
22 3.69 > 2.61 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word from alternative candidates within the domain of estate agents .
23 The t-score can be checked against statistical tables to determine the level of significance : i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
24 2.84 > 2.101 therefore : reject null hypothesis at 95% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 95% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
25 The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême .
26 Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth .
27 It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ?
28 ( 3 ) Can it be said with certainty that the court will , under section 2(2) , exempt the third party from liability to make a contribution ?
29 Or w w shall we say that may be said with a bit of a tongue in cheek ?
30 All that can really be said with certainty is that quasi-governmental bodies generally operate in narrower , more specific areas than government departments or local authorities .
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