Example sentences of "say of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 2 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |
| 3 | He says of carnal intimacy with a prophylactic that it is ‘ not so bad ’ . |
| 4 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Can the same be said of military firing at those times ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 9 | Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss : |
| 10 | said of undue influence : |
| 11 | Winston Churchill said of atomic energy in 1939 , ‘ It might be as good as present day explosives , but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous . ’ |
| 12 | Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible . |
| 13 | This distinction has importance not least because it is often ( mistakenly ) said of local authority accounts that they are essentially cash accounts . |
| 14 | David Shields , marketing manager of the American-controlled National Magazines , publishers of Cosmopolitan , Good Housekeeping , Country Living , She , and Harpers & Queen , said of retail display allowances : ‘ It is not something we would like to encourage here . ’ |
| 15 | Moreover , it is one of the founding presuppositions of sociology , one might say of social science more generally , that individuals are related to each other rather than isolated . |