Example sentences of "be say from " in BNC.

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1 I endorse everything that has been said from both sides of the House in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed .
2 get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is
3 So it 'd only be say from there to the roof round .
4 The policing of CND rallies and the miners ' strike could hardly be said from the Government 's point of view to have failed , and certainly the police did not suffer for want of legal powers .
5 All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier .
6 The Maid of Norway died ( it is said from seasickness ) on her way from her homeland in 1290 , bad weather having forced her ship to seek shelter on Orkney .
7 What kind of rules enable people to infer the function of what is said from its literal , formal meaning ?
8 What kind of rules enable people to infer the function of what is said from its literal , formal meaning ?
9 The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes .
10 By contrast , a writer whose allegiances ultimately lie with the bourgeoisie would necessarily understand political developments from the outside , that is to say from the perspective of an oppressive class .
11 ‘ It was said from the outset that revenue funding would come from the local authorities , ’ he said .
12 In the highly oxygenated water below a weir swim the little fish not known for nothing as the ‘ miller 's thumb ’ : the flattened head of the fish was often compared with the thumb of the miller , worn it was said from testing the flour .
13 He is a media manipulator of genius , so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape , waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped .
14 ‘ — and then I belonged to the Pasha of Re'durat and played a prominent part in the battle of the Great Nef , which is where I received the slight nick you may have noticed some two-thirds of the way up my blade , ’ Kring was saying from its temporary home in a tussock .
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