Example sentences of "to say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would see what he had to say as personal criticism and that was something which in his experience few women could take . |
| 2 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |
| 3 | O K , so , that 's really all I 've got to say about living assurance , of all the , it 's just got to be , a brilliant contract , and if you can afford it , you need it yourself . |
| 4 | Suitably fed etc , Mr Bhattacharya has some serious things to say about financial reporting . |
| 5 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 6 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |
| 7 | Is that the general , I mean I do n't know for all you car drivers have any thing to say about public transport , maybe you do n't know any more but those of you who use it , I mean is hopeless the general view ? , yes |
| 8 | The spiritual writer , Francois Fenelon , had this to say about Christian gentleness : |
| 9 | The second thing to say about humorous crime fiction is that you have to reconcile in your pages that sharp difference between crime , which arises from evil , and laughter , which is by and large a manifestation of good . |
| 10 | What Cable has equipped us with is a theoretical metrics with challenging things to say about poetic competence : metrics , as he puts it ( p. 65 ) , " is not about orthography and written texts apprehended by the eye but about mental structures " . |
| 11 | ( Just occasionally I may be able to say with reasonable confidence that a particular advertisement or campaign is quantifiably better at generating sales than another . |
| 12 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 13 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 14 | ‘ But of the people , ’ Fergus was to say with unconscious arrogance . |
| 15 | He cursed her , and blessed her , and fumed away on her errand as far as the door ; and turned there to say with genuine fury : ‘ Am I mad , that I turn you loose to take your chance among wolves ? |
| 16 | His words startled Lucy , forcing her to say with cold dignity , ‘ I trust you do n't imagine I 'm here with the idea of setting my cap at Silas , because nothing is further from my intentions . ’ |
| 17 | ' It is not , therefore , presumptuous to say with quiet confidence , ‘ I know that I belong to Christ . |
| 18 | She quivered , then his gaze travelled past her , and she was able to say with quick energy , ‘ Daddy 'll climb right up again , he always does . |
| 19 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 20 | Oh I 've forgot to say under advisory committee , I , this has taken so long , I 've completely forgot about it . |
| 21 | You may not wish to say in open session . |
| 22 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 23 | ’ Business before debauchery , Lord , as they used to say on Old Earth . ’ |
| 24 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |