Example sentences of "say [prep] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | say about badge 's |
| 2 | And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions . |
| 3 | In the next scene Macbeth , speaking alone and with no need to deceive anyone ( given the convention in Elizabethan drama that what characters say in soliloquy is true ) , admits the evil of their ‘ deep intent ’ : Duncan is ‘ clear ’ , really has that freedom from guilt or stain that his wife had urged Macbeth to assume : in a sense he tries to do so here , in his defence of Duncan 's right to be treated with love and respect , and in his invocation of ‘ pity ’ , that constant test of humanity in Shakespeare . |
| 4 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 5 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 6 | The first thing to be said about mistake is that it does not usually provide a defence , for liability in conversion is strict : |
| 7 | Practically everything that I have said about borrowing is applicable to cash , in reverse . |
| 8 | What can be said about fluoride is that at concentrations of even less than one part per million ( the official dose ) it can cause toxic reactions in sensitive people and recent reassessments of the fluoridation scene suggest that this measure may be much more harmful to health than has been hitherto realized . |
| 9 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 10 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 12 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 13 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 14 | All that can really be said with certainty is that quasi-governmental bodies generally operate in narrower , more specific areas than government departments or local authorities . |
| 15 | It may be that what he 's said in court is purely something to get back at you and he does n't really mean it . |
| 16 | Chairman can I just clarify that we we 're saying up to the erm what I 've said in speaking was that two point one million beyond that what is actually in the budget erm which is . |
| 17 | Very little of what 's said in conversation is direct and meaningful . |
| 18 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 19 | The first thing to be said in reply is a familiar Popperian theme : a clearly articulated hypothesis , which fails to match the facts in certain specifiable ways , can be a crucial stage in the development of a more satisfactory scientific understanding . |
| 20 | How , theoretically , this connection could be said to work was rarely explained . |
| 21 | You 're saying in charge is sort of like , I am in charge which is like this . |
| 22 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 23 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 24 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
| 25 | For all he said about poetry being a ‘ mug 's game ’ , he must have felt an interior exultation at knowing that he possessed outstanding gifts . |
| 26 | What he had to say about funding is duly noted . |
| 27 | One of the problems of opposing what deconstruction has had to say about language is that , according to deconstructionists like Miller and de Man , to do so is to oppose language itself . |
| 28 | Niki acknowledges that they were never friends ; he also has kind words to say about Clay being a good , steady driver and so on . |
| 29 | What Bob said of course was totally untrue with respect to what the Conservatives did in the past . |
| 30 | Erm it may be that what he said in court was purely bluff . |