Example sentences of "[be] say to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context , people are said to practice female mutilation as a habit . |
| 2 | No , but it 's what they 're saying to Fergie , is just go ! |
| 3 | It 's a plea which we suggest should make the timetable serve the child and not the reverse , and so what we 're doing is we 're saying to children erm ‘ Yes , you are of the same worth , you are of equal value , you should have the same care , love attention and the same resources ’ . |
| 4 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 5 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 6 | What have you been saying to Jenna ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 8 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 9 | For the moment , nothing would be said to Oliver himself . |
| 10 | Still , a Government lately inclined to talk nostalgically about communities might well reflect on whether the actions of a Timex could be said to mesh well with the interests or values of a community which has long afforded the company a secure base and a loyal workforce . |
| 11 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 12 | Different indices represent the ingenuity with which the theoretical constructs can be made to produce satisfactory elaborations that result in different indices and , equally important , the extent to which different indices can , plausibly , be said to measure the same concept . |
| 13 | This type of book may be said to ante-date the classical detective story , which we have called the template or original of most crime fiction . |
| 14 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 15 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 16 | It is in this complicated sense that misogyny and homophobia once more interconnect , and otherness may be said to inhere within the same . |
| 17 | How , theoretically , this connection could be said to work was rarely explained . |
| 18 | The fundamental problem faced by the preliminary fact doctrine is that in an everyday sense all the elements relating to X , or , to X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , could be said to condition jurisdiction . |
| 19 | I think that ought to be said to staff . |
| 20 | Legion led Ace into it with a certain swagger , if a green balloon trailing pink strands could be said to swagger . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure , but the best thing is if I know everything , then I can judge how much has to be said to Mother Clare . ’ |
| 22 | Many people at the church will be saying to Mrs Patient and her family , ‘ I do miss your husband , he was so good to me , ’ and whereas this makes the family feel warm it also makes them feel disturbed . |
| 23 | When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 24 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |
| 25 | A scorcher of a free kick from Paul Simpson made it 3-2 and the fourth ; well if you were Newcastle manager , Ossie Ardiles what would you be saying to goalkeeper , Tommy Wright after this ? |
| 26 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 27 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 28 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 29 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 30 | I 'm saying to Glasgow city council that I think the reason for the poor health of its people is due to factors outwith health services and more to do with social and economic factors such as unemployment and bad housing . ’ |