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 | It has been said on high authority that |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 9 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 12 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 13 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 14 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 15 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 16 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 17 | Can the same be said of military firing at those times ? |
| 18 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 19 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 20 | ‘ She can twist me round her little finger ’ , is said with glowing pride . |
| 21 | A good deal is said about nuclear proliferation and Goldschmidt staunchly defends France 's uncompromising stance on trading in uranium . |
| 22 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 23 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 24 | I mean I I would say that was an abuse of the position of power , because if he was Joe Bloggs in the street nobody would listen to what he was saying about electoral reform ! |
| 25 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 26 | ‘ But do n't you understand , I only want to help , ’ she was saying with bosom-heaving passion . |
| 27 | ‘ But of the people , ’ Fergus was to say with unconscious arrogance . |