Example sentences of "say [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 2 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 3 | The gang fled , but police say although the man was brave to tackle them , they ca n't encourage others to do the same . |
| 4 | Informed sources say that a sub-contract between an American company and the West Germans was signed in the US in mid-September . |
| 5 | Sources within Coopers say that a change of mind will be announced this week . |
| 6 | Theorists say that a stockmarket is ‘ efficient ’ if prices take account of all information that is available that might affect a firm 's future cash flow . |
| 7 | The poem mentions the tolling of a bell ; we say that a bell ‘ tolls ’ when it sounds one repeated single note . |
| 8 | We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person if , and only if , he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express — that is , if he knows what observations would lead him , under certain conditions , to accept the proposition as being true , or reject it as being false . |
| 9 | I 'm sure you 'll understand what I mean when I say that a reader in , for example , Moscow would find your book very difficult to relate to . |
| 10 | Do they really mean it when they say that a proposal is ‘ not negotiable ’ or conditional upon your acceptance within a very strict time limit ? |
| 11 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 12 | The nearest human equivalent to purring is smiling , and we also make the same mistake when we say that a smiling man is a happy man . |
| 13 | Environmentalists now say that a completely new transport policy is essential to curb the effects vehicles are having on our planet . |
| 14 | They say that a close encounter between the Sun and a more diffuse star-like object in the cluster tore off a hot filament of gases . |
| 15 | In the video you say that a gap of ″ should be the distance between the body of the guitar ( Strat ) and the underside of the bridge plate . |
| 16 | They say that a domestic crisis brings a family closer together . |
| 17 | Notches on tallies were an early way of scoring in cricket matches , and people are still said to ‘ notch up ’ a good score , just as one can still hear a commentator say that a free-scoring batsman is ‘ in good nick ’ . |
| 18 | The old zeks say that a man is weakest when he comes to the camps for the first time , when the desire for life is first squeezed from him . |
| 19 | Emigrés from the region in former Yugoslavia with , confusingly , the same name say that a show of such fragile works sends a strongly political message from Athens , which has hitherto not been a generous international lender of art . |
| 20 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 21 | Zande say that a suicide takes his own life ‘ because he is bewitched ’ : ‘ witchcraft ’ killed him . |
| 22 | Besides revealing that many of the collection 's frames were damaged when National Gallery conservators removed paintings for examination , the students say that a plan to store works not included on the tour in either the National Gallery or the Philadelphia Museum of Art would bring the foundation 's art classes to an end . |
| 23 | When we say that a ring round the moon means rain , we refer to a connection in nature . |
| 24 | When we say that a flag at half-mast means that someone has died , we refer to a social convention that death shall be marked in this way . |
| 25 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |
| 26 | If a , b ε Z we say that a is less than b and write unc If we only know ( or care ) that unc we write unc ( b — a is the shorthand notation for the more accurate B + ( -a ) . |
| 27 | We say that a divides b ( or that a is a divisor of b ) and we write unc there exists unc such that |
| 28 | ( ii ) If a ε Z is neither 0 nor a unit we say that a is irreducible iff , whenever a is expressed as a product , a = bc with b , c ε Z , it follows that either b or c is a unit . |
| 29 | ( iii ) If a ε Z is neither 0 nor a unit we say that a is prime iff , whenever a divides a product , that is , a\bc where b c ε Z it follows that a\b or a\c ( or both ) . |
| 30 | May we , at this stage , say that a positive integrated progression is evident at this moment in time . |