Example sentences of "say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept what I say about industrial matters , he will perhaps listen to the head of the Swedish employers federation , who said that the Community should learn from Sweden : ’ It could above all avoid mistakes when it comes to regulations based on the social charter . |
| 2 | Whatever you say about home-made porn , you ca n't really accuse it of propagating images that further oppressive sexual stereotypes . |
| 3 | You have time to digest the unexpected worm , as they say about early birds ! |
| 4 | On the hon. Gentleman 's first question , I am not responsible for what the press say about particular matters . |
| 5 | As he gets out of his chair , I ask him if it 's true what they say about short men . |
| 6 | Alison say about previous ideas , what 's that . |
| 7 | OR A SAY FOR DISABLED STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS |
| 8 | What if , say for local example , the principal of the Glasgow School of Art , his leg broken while foolishly roaming the hills in the amateurish manner of town dwellers , and also brought half-dead to Castle Bewick should spy , carelessly hidden beneath a sofa-cushion , a drawing of such rare and touching brilliance that he too , broken leg notwithstanding , should limp forward , eyes blazing , the paper shaking in his hand … |
| 9 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 10 | Right , what 's , perhaps I should have started with , with the contrasting picture in which , at the level of intellect , erm , there would be no individual forms , but only forms say for human beings . |
| 11 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 12 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 13 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 14 | as I say of different people |
| 15 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |
| 16 | I 'd like to take up your point about is it that erm after revolution and so on and break downs , governments er countries , say like Russian , China er some of these eastern European countries , they 're motivation goes to building their country up to resist occupation . |
| 17 | Trade union members have been given more say via pre-strike ballots , regular elections of their officials , and votes on the unions ' political levy . |
| 18 | It was a moment or two before she was able to control the wild surge of emotion and say with commendable aplomb , ‘ Good morning , Signor Lorenzo . |
| 19 | Once this condition is reached , say with potential difference , balance is approached much better by adjusting the quadrature component to reach a new range to that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from some new much lower minimum . |
| 20 | ‘ I do what I have to do , as they say in Western films , ’ he declaimed , ogling my ear . |
| 21 | This wider and less tangible area is also important in tracing the changing culture of what is otherwise ( say in economic terms ) a continuing or persistent class . |
| 22 | When we adhered to the gold standard , the House had no say in monetary policy because the money supply was dictated arbitrarily and objectively by the volume of gold discovered in the world . |
| 23 | Not only that , but all regions will have a direct say in European affairs at E C level , thanks to the creation of a new community institution the Committee of the Regions . |
| 24 | ‘ If Germany ca n't afford to carry out testing , what about smaller countries , say in Eastern Europe ? |
| 25 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 26 | It also has a major say in academic provision , student welfare , accommodation and national education policy . |
| 27 | The icing on the scrummy cake is the brilliant pre-match options menu , offering the selection of your squad , any of the eight national teams , a full tournament , lots of control options , two-player games and , as they say in cruddy Christmas album adverts , much much more ! |
| 28 | Farmers say in previous years the public have n't always got a fair deal , as Simon Garrett reports |
| 29 | I say in particular our union because everyone here knows we probably have the largest and best training programme of any other union in Britain today . |
| 30 | And , as I 'm sure you know — the Inspector 's judicious glance swept his audience — ‘ we can sometimes do in passion , say in passionate hatred , what we could n't do ordinarily . |