Example sentences of "[adj] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am ashamed to say that I have heard this said by social workers : ‘ all they really need is to be warm , comfortable and well fed ’ . |
| 3 | The spiritual writer , Francois Fenelon , had this to say about Christian gentleness : |
| 4 | Extensive use is made here in this chapter of his posthumously published work ( Bulmer , 1986 ) because it has so much to say of immediate and striking significance to our theme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ted would sometimes wonder if he had n't made Pete into a kind of surrogate son to fill the hole that Shaun had left … it was impossible to say for sure , and nothing to be ashamed of anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ Impossible to say for certain , sir . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's too early to say for sure that this is a trend . |
| 9 | We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure . |
| 10 | In those days — we 're talking 1890 to about 1915 — there were hundreds of different brands and varieties of guitars being made in the United States , but it 's hard to say for sure that any of them were actually distributed in Hawaii — it was kind of off the beaten track . |
| 11 | It also has a major say in academic provision , student welfare , accommodation and national education policy . |
| 12 | I 'd rather be constructive about this and meet Virginia Bottomley , put these points to her as an all party thing cos we 've all said in Social Services that that is the problem that we 're faced with . |
| 13 | I flew down and looked at the computer screens to see what was written on them , and they all said in huge letters … |
| 14 | It was clear that the right hon. and learned Gentleman had astonishingly little to say , and nothing at all to say about Labour policies . |
| 15 | The idea of reparation has come very much to the fore in discus-sions about punishment in recent years , and we shall have more to say about various reparative forms of punishment in Chapter 7 . |
| 16 | These points are of the greatest importance in developing a social model for the study of linguistic change , and there is much more to say about relative degrees of network strength as they affect patterns of change : I shall , therefore , refer back frequently to these findings . |
| 17 | Thus Major was able to say amid Tory cheers : ‘ That help will be additional to the future increase in pensions and other benefits which will take place automatically . |
| 18 | ( 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He thought Cattini must be in his mid-thirties , though it was difficult to say for sure . |
| 21 | While it is not difficult to say in general terms what the Council did under Henry VII , certain problems about its organization are less easily solved . |
| 22 | There is a stony silence , Dolores hides her head and turns away and it 's left to Fergal to say in solemn tones : |
| 23 | In consequence , the social scientists have much to say about teenagers becoming prostitutes , football hooligans , drug-addicts and jobless ; they have little to say about young people seeking middle-class respectability and nothing whatsoever about heirs to dukedoms or oil fortunes . |
| 24 | Paradoxically the ‘ neoclassical ’ part of the neoclassical synthesis has surprisingly little to say about relative prices : the route back to full employment is through the downward revision of absolute prices . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |
| 27 | ' It is not , therefore , presumptuous to say with quiet confidence , ‘ I know that I belong to Christ . |
| 28 | Or they 'd realize that it might be rather agreeable to say to visiting parents , ‘ That 's Noel Westerman — you know , Norman Ward Westerman 's son . |
| 29 | For non-Hindi households , English is now the weapon which will enable them to have a sufficient say in national administrative affairs . |
| 30 | It is not true to say of oral cultures that there is a peculiar ‘ directness of relationship between meaning and referent ’ , that ‘ the meaning of each word is ratified in a succession of concrete situations ’ only , that meanings in oral cultures are always particular and specific . |