Example sentences of "say [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I say for most ordinary people who play it , it 's a pastime . |
| 2 | There is a need for , and I say with all due respect , an unbiased er , piece of advice from people who ha , do n't have an axe to grind in terms of specific subjects because some children er in my opinion are sometimes lead down wrong avenues |
| 3 | For non-Hindi households , English is now the weapon which will enable them to have a sufficient say in national administrative affairs . |
| 4 | For example I can see a good case for a local headmaster being a member of the authority , representing educational concerns or for some representations say from significant ethnic groups within the area , but these can be identified and appointed by the authorities themselves , whose local knowledge will lead to far more accurate selection than Whitehall or Whitehall inspired sources . |
| 5 | ‘ I say to this little voice — thank you for your opinion , go back to your room . ’ |
| 6 | So I say to this German girl , ‘ Here , you take the camera . |
| 7 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 8 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 9 | Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes . |
| 10 | However , when we look closely at what is said about these various gods , we find that the god chosen by ( or who chooses ) Israel is quite unlike all the others . |
| 11 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 12 | Enough has been said about this whole thing now and I just want to forget about it . ’ |
| 13 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 14 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 15 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 16 | ‘ When it comes to the purity of our water , we have virtually no traces of bacteria in the finished product , which is more than can be said for some other Common Market countries , ’ Dr Derek Miller , assistant director of the soon-to-be-privatised Water Research Centre told the newspaper . |
| 17 | It says of this charismatic community that they met constantly to pray , to break bread , to hear the apostles teach and to share their common life together . |
| 18 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 20 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 21 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 22 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 23 | More is said of these specific affinities in section 4.8 , below . |
| 24 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 25 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |
| 26 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are sometimes obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 27 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 28 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 29 | Birse says under Labour local council receipts from the sale of council houses may be released to enable more council houses to be built , and this could help the industry , particularly local builders . |
| 30 | ‘ I think she feels I 'm safe ’ , he says with that famous lopsided grin . |