Example sentences of "to say [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( Institute of Public Relations [ IPR ] ) The essential features of this definition are firstly that PR practice should be deliberate , planned and sustained — not haphazard ( like responding to say accidental pollution of a river ) .
2 We 'll have to say sorry Bill you know w send them down to Dave if Dave 's got time to pull 'em in he will do , if not we 'll you know we 'll have to reply negative .
3 There is thus a tendency for some engineers to say that drafting ( and therefore tertiary design ) is not really design ; that the mundane activities necessary to produce an artefact really belong solely to production engineering .
4 While it is correct to say that appropriation for purposes of section 3(1) includes the latter sort of act , it does not necessarily follow that no other act can amount to an appropriation and in particular that no act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner can in any circumstances do so .
5 Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia .
6 To say that the other can remain absolutely other , that he enters only into the relationship of conversation , is to say that history itself , an identification of the same , can not claim to totalise the same and the other .
7 That is not to say that sleep or being awake are the only time-cues of importance to humans .
8 Being an ex-Hamble aircraft , I am glad to say that G-ARJU , the example flown for this article , has civilised elevator and rudder trims .
9 I think perhaps if I just add a point to that er although we have as four nations agreed on the revised requirement there , I believe it 's true to say that development has progressed to such an extent that probably we will have the original requirement in practice , even though we 've no longer specified it .
10 Or one other word which is to say that sponsorship is enabling because if you go into a partnership like A B S A it enables you to get the gov similar government funding .
11 He asserts cautiously that there is a ‘ possibility that both genetic and environmental influences , and interactions between them , may be important in the causation of mental processes , including awareness ’ and goes on to say that awareness probably has survival value because it enables animals to respond to the complexities of the world in which they behave .
12 The British Medical Association , well they 'll have ample ammunition now to say that boxing is no longer a sport .
13 But her acknowledgement of her feelings for him was still new , and even while wanting to be with him she felt nervous , terrified that by some small look or too-ready smile she might give away her feelings — that she did n't want to say that goodbye — and that to do so would break her heart .
14 In this screen , I 'm glad to say that public opinion you see can shift things .
15 To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat .
16 I just wanted to say that question , so , who discovered Uranus in seventeen eighty one ?
17 Now anybody can have erm within the areas if you like our part , no you do n't have to have all the signs and symptoms to say that person has had an epileptic fit .
18 Ii is perhaps fair to say that experience of the kind of thinking involved also results in more perceptive provision for those children whose learning difficulties are less pronounced .
19 That is to say that Middle C , at 256Hz , has its true pitch represented on the guitar at the first fret , second string .
20 You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six .
21 The fact that manufacturer B produced a safer razor after the razor in question had been supplied by manufacturer A is not enough to enable us to say that manufacturer A's razor was defective .
22 We are not trying to say that divorce is never the answer .
23 I think we should all be able to say that word and feel proud about it .
24 This is not , though , to say that upland landscapes and the floristic and faunistic richness of the uplands are best developed under this form of land management .
25 Adjustment is not complete , it 's partial alright , so we 're going to say that supply adjusts in the following manner , right , according to the partial adjustment hypothesis alright , so changes in actual supply alright , will be delta of the difference between the desired level of output for T , right and the actual level of input T minus one alright , plus er alright , so that was just our partial adjustment model that we looked at last week , right , we 'll call that equation three okay right .
26 There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ?
27 Suffice it to say that Labour 's internal opinion-polling , now being carried out by NOP , is being ‘ front-loaded ’ to give more information through this spring .
28 Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things .
29 Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that cruelty was cruel , you can only call people cruel , particular things .
30 Erm , may I take the opportunity to say that cross border is a bit of a misnomer , erm , it 's , the correct term is really doing work for other bodies .
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