Example sentences of "to say for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 2 | Even here , something can be found to say for the deficit , as a safety valve for inflationary pressures . |
| 3 | ( Nobody could find a good word to say for the secondary moderns , and that silence was eloquent and effective . ) |
| 4 | Even Albert Piggott had a good word to say for the dying man , as he drank his half-pint of bitter at The Two Pheasants . |
| 5 | Now these are the words which I , the High Commissioner , have to say for the future . |
| 6 | ‘ In rude health — ’ Joan said smilingly , echoing his own words ‘ — though anxious needless to say for the welfare of her sons ! ’ |
| 7 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 8 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 9 | Bad thing to say for the old feller , but I was lucky . ’ |
| 10 | they they 're not allowed to say for the company . |
| 11 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 12 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |