Example sentences of "said [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what we 've said about visual support , it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture . |
| 2 | ‘ There has n't been anything said about foul play yet . ’ |
| 3 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 4 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 5 | A good deal is said about nuclear proliferation and Goldschmidt staunchly defends France 's uncompromising stance on trading in uranium . |
| 6 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 7 | Nor has anything been said about precise method . |
| 8 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 9 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 10 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 11 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 12 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 13 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 14 | Can the same be said of military firing at those times ? |
| 15 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 16 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 17 | She gets her reply from one of the players : " crablouse " ( said with Creole pronunciation , but by a speaker who anyway has a Jamaican accent ) . |
| 18 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 19 | The frequent remark that ‘ it was all so much simpler under communism ’ is not always said with total irony . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 22 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 23 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 24 | ‘ She can twist me round her little finger ’ , is said with glowing pride . |
| 25 | ‘ Too long , ’ Bicker said with quiet savagery , burying his eyes in the fire . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was only said in good fun , nothing malicious . |
| 28 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 29 | Indeed , Hobbes says , ‘ I believe that scarce anything can be more absurdly said in natural philosophy , than Aristotle 's Metaphysics . ’ |
| 30 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |