Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ What I 'll be saying in a year 's time I do n't know . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 'll be saying to him , D' ya have to have this on . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We should be saying to the Secretary of State : ‘ If you want fees say so , go to the electorate and ask them . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And this may well be something which we should be saying to the priest |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 13 | If adjustment to these constraints appears ( on the basis of psychological and/or physiological evidence ) to be innate rather than learned , they may be said to be ‘ built in ’ , or ‘ hard-wired ’ . |
| 14 | To the extent that these parts of the social structure are based on the same values , they may be said to be integrated . |
| 15 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 16 | They 'll be saying to themselves : we felt it up there , how much will Rangers feel it down here ? |
| 17 | Therese said , ‘ Mon petit , the people who talk do n't matter , I was n't thinking of them , I was thinking of your mother , of what they might be saying about her . ’ |
| 18 | Trying to ignore what they might be saying about her , she held on to silence as her only control . |
| 19 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 20 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , they could be said to be implicit justifications of an almost fully formulated nature , in that they provide reasons for the existence of the monarchy and its ceremonial occasions . |
| 22 | If he has other things to say they will be said at Mansion House next Thursday , an occasion by tradition for the Chancellor to speak on monetary policy . |
| 23 | In the sense that these parties have provided the electorate with a clear either-or choice in both countries for many years , they can be said to be doing their job . |
| 24 | Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer . |
| 25 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 26 | It may be said at once that these questions can not be answered with complete certainty . |
| 27 | It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) . |
| 28 | It may be said at once that of these dates the most inherently improbable is the last , that given by the later Turkish tradition . |
| 29 | It may be said at once that the doctrine of tenure , as developed in England , made it difficult , if not impossible to regard either [ the tenant ] or his lord as the owner of the land itself . |
| 30 | It may be said of many palaeontologists , as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians : " Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present " . |