Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 2 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'll be saying in a year 's time I do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there is information which may be said to be external to the company , commonly referred to as market information . |
| 6 | It is such questions which one must ask of Christians , particularly Christians who would be feminist , who explain that the creation story ( or any other part of the Christian story which may be said to be sexist ) is to them a ‘ true myth ’ . |
| 7 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 8 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 9 | A deictic element is not a term as such , but some part of the utterance which might be said to be deictic . |
| 10 | Yes but forgive me you must listen to what 's said to you because somebody might be saying to you Lawrence is under the bed . |
| 11 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the power to make an order under section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 was not confined to documents which could be said to be necessary to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge , even if that might be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order , but extended to all documents which the administrator reasonably required to see to carry out his functions ; that the applicant had to satisfy the court that after balancing all the relevant factors , there was a proper case for making the order ; that since the information sought was necessary to enable the administrators to carry out the administration and production of the documents did not impose an unnecessary and unreasonable burden on the accountants , the registrar 's order despite its width , was proper in the exceptional circumstances ( post , pp. 855E–H , 860C–D , 862D–E , G–H , 863D , 864E ) . |
| 12 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 13 | ‘ Practically the only good thing which can be said about the patronage system , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ is that it prevents dioceses selling off or pulling down at least some few of their beautiful buildings . ’ |
| 14 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 15 | The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge . |
| 16 | I am therefore of the opinion that the power of the court to make an order under section 236 is not limited to documents which can be said to be needed ‘ to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge ’ even if that may be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order . |
| 17 | He controlled an efficient network of spies : nothing could be said in Delhi without Aurangzeb coming to hear of it . |
| 18 | There are those today who may be said to be living as though Pentecost had never taken place . |
| 19 | Erm you find that more and more constant repetition , each time you go back to it , there 's less that you 've forgotten , less that seems new and more that seems obvious and you 'll be saying to yourself , sort of m You know of course Yeah I do n't need to read this , tat 's obvious that 's obvious . |
| 20 | You 'll be saying to him , D' ya have to have this on . |
| 21 | you can write down these words , that would then be given you a clue things that you could be saying to your customers , where , right , if you start thinking about the job that you 're doing and I give you the word where , right you think of the number of times you can use the word where , with a customer , right |
| 22 | There will be a lot of people in the House of Lords who will be saying to the Queen ‘ stand your ground ’ . |
| 23 | Research findings suggest , moreover , that the people most likely to change their votes — the floating voters — are generally the least informed within the electorate , and are thus not people who can be said to be making careful choices between policies . |
| 24 | To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc . |
| 25 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 26 | ‘ We should be saying to the Secretary of State : ‘ If you want fees say so , go to the electorate and ask them . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And this may well be something which we should be saying to the priest |
| 29 | Al also the way we talk about it is very very sloppy , we often say A minus B when we should be saying plus A take away plus B. We start talking like that people he 's off again . |
| 30 | Before the definition of a contract of sale of goods is 1–3 considered , something must be said of the history and sources of the law relating to sale of goods . |