Example sentences of "[be] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work . |
| 3 | Nor has anything been said about precise method . |
| 4 | Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes . |
| 5 | It has been said on high authority that |
| 6 | So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I accept everything that has been said by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the need for a stronger line against terrorism . |
| 9 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 10 | Much of what has been said by Conservative Members today seems to be a rearguard attempt to protect the Home Secretary and his sinking reputation . |
| 11 | We the union are the back-up system as been said by previous speakers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 14 | And molecules like this , amino acids are other examples , are said by structural chemists to have a ‘ chirality ’ , from the Greek word for hand . |
| 15 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 16 | When I look at what the new people in charge of Channel 3 are saying about Current Affairs , I am depressed . |
| 17 | Mr Petrakov is one of the band of influential economists who have made the mental leap to the market ( ‘ We need a normal , civilised market , ’ he says ) , and have been saying with growing urgency that Mr Gorbachev must join them , and bring the country with him . |
| 18 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 19 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 20 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 21 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 22 | It might be say at equal opportunities which we 've worked at a very great deal over the last year . |
| 23 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 26 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 27 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 28 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 29 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |