Example sentences of "be say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family prayers must have been said with particular fervour that night but it was n't only the dramatic episode that drove Ella Burrows to her knees . |
| 2 | Nor has anything been said about precise method . |
| 3 | Nothing more had been said on that subject . |
| 4 | It has been said on high authority that |
| 5 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 6 | Rather a lot has been said in this chapter about the minor details of lava flows . |
| 7 | ( But note that , despite what has been said in this paragraph concerning the administration of funds , the fact that there was less political pay in the fourth century also helped to dilute the democracy . ) |
| 8 | Enough has been said in this paragraph to indicate that the justification of telescopic observations was no simple , straightforward matter . |
| 9 | M. Dupont went on : ‘ Many things of interest have been said in this house over the past days . |
| 10 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 11 | What has been said in this section concerns consciousness itself , and hence , as remarked above , does not concern all of our mental life . |
| 12 | He went on to deny that they had amy political ends other than an end to discrimination : ‘ It has been said against this movement that its purpose is to unite Ireland and to unite the working class … |
| 13 | For example , if all syllables are said with low pitch except for one said with high pitch , then the high-pitched syllable will be heard as stressed and the others as unstressed . |
| 14 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 15 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 16 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |
| 17 | So when you compare what the politicians are saying in this election , ask yourself these questions . |
| 18 | Mr Petrakov is one of the band of influential economists who have made the mental leap to the market ( ‘ We need a normal , civilised market , ’ he says ) , and have been saying with growing urgency that Mr Gorbachev must join them , and bring the country with him . |
| 19 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 20 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 22 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 23 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 24 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 25 | There was no more to be said on that subject . |
| 26 | More will be said on that point later . |
| 27 | " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side … |
| 28 | The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches . |
| 29 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 30 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |