Example sentences of "be say the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , but you do n't you , you well if you 've got a rich peasant economy you do n't need to because you 're saying the rich peasant |
| 2 | Being primed with the relevant background information can make you much more confident that you are saying the right thing to the right person . |
| 3 | Could it not be said the overwhelming factor of modern life is the apathy amongst the majority of its members , which should engender concern regarding the way government is designed ? |
| 4 | erm , do you know what we were saying the other night ? |
| 5 | Remember what you were saying the other day . |
| 6 | We 've got a got a minute or two some some friends of ours were saying the other day they 've booked a holiday at er very near the Por Portagil Portuguese Spanish border on the South Do you know it ? |
| 7 | Ca n't get rid of him , yeah and that fits in with what we were saying the other day about the Freudian kind of relation between the three of them . |
| 8 | Actually , me and Joe were saying the other day , like ever erm who was it , someone said something about people being fat or whatever and someone 's gone , oh yeah , like Helena , you know jokingly and erm and me and Joe both turned round and said yeah but she 's not fat though is she , she 's like more you 're more wide are n't you ? |
| 9 | We we were saying the other day yeah we reckon we reckon yeah she looks like erm oi oi oi you know Oi oi oi you know the Fraggles yeah ? |
| 10 | You see , it was n't that they had no faith , they had faith we were saying the other week when we were dealing with this , we all have faith it 's what we do with it . |
| 11 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 12 | ‘ If it is said the constitutional position is not affected then that is the position . |
| 13 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 14 | The basic rule is that ‘ costs follow the event , ’ that is to say the successful party can expect the judge to order the loser to pay some or all of his or her solicitor 's bill . |
| 15 | The quality of a work of art , that is to say the maximum level of effectiveness of a work of art , resides in the precision of the means employed to achieve the most profound results , to release the hidden resources locked away in the depths of the reader 's psyche . |
| 16 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |
| 17 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 18 | Parliament , by the Act of 1976 deliberately left these cases , where the children were born before the enactment of the Act of 1976 , to be decided by the law in force before the passing of that Act , that is to say the common law . |
| 19 | That is to say the Common Market should have been established between the original six members by 1969 . |
| 20 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 22 | Ben was saying the other day that soon they would drop out as I walked down to the shops ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She was saying the other day about the way the media make women afraid to enjoy their own bodies . |
| 24 | That 's what Joan was saying the other day as a woman you have to be , otherwise you do n't get there . |
| 25 | Helen said quietly , ‘ That 's exactly what Edward was saying the other day . |
| 26 | it is , it 's exactly ten years although I reckon like , well , the thing is , these like late bookers like Richard was saying the other day , the flight ones , you du n no where your going |
| 27 | If somebody says you do n't wan na be rushed , right , that 's what you 've got ta say to them that 's just what that old dear was saying the other day , right you certainly understand that , right , you agree with them , first thing you do you always agree with them , right and then you 've just got the same sequence as I want to think about it , but just sort of make it clear , I mean what is it they actually , you know , frightened of being rushed into ? |
| 28 | Well Les was saying the only thing you 've got ta be careful of like when you pay money into a bank when you 're in business and you pay money into the bank and the bank then pay your standing orders er and everything 's done through a bank , then the tax office sort of tend to think well fair enough you know , he 's legit . |
| 29 | The , the that she was under , and Pearl did , Pearl was trusting her and , and knew , and so the Denise was saying the right thing , she was staying in the bedroom , never knew what was going on down there . |
| 30 | was saying the overall winner was Lucinda Murray on Just Jeremy , and er he first asked her over er a glass of champagne I believe , celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday with a party on Friday , er was that beneficial to success ? |