Example sentences of "say about [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you say about home-made porn , you ca n't really accuse it of propagating images that further oppressive sexual stereotypes . |
| 2 | I hear what the Minister says about regional policy in the past . |
| 3 | Erm now it says it says about Informed Consent forms . |
| 4 | Everything that Labour says about public spending shows that it is completely indifferent to inflation , which would have a bad effect on unemployment . |
| 5 | After what we 've said about visual support , it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture . |
| 6 | ‘ There has n't been anything said about foul play yet . ’ |
| 7 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 8 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 9 | A good deal is said about nuclear proliferation and Goldschmidt staunchly defends France 's uncompromising stance on trading in uranium . |
| 10 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 11 | Nor has anything been said about precise method . |
| 12 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 13 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |
| 17 | I understood what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said about economic migration and refugees under the 1951 convention . |
| 18 | Which , of course , they once said about pop music . |
| 19 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 20 | Me dad told us all about you , and what you said about Big Norm , Sniffer , Uncle Billy , an' that back in t' seventies . |
| 21 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |
| 22 | O K , so , that 's really all I 've got to say about living assurance , of all the , it 's just got to be , a brilliant contract , and if you can afford it , you need it yourself . |
| 23 | Suitably fed etc , Mr Bhattacharya has some serious things to say about financial reporting . |
| 24 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 25 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |
| 26 | Is that the general , I mean I do n't know for all you car drivers have any thing to say about public transport , maybe you do n't know any more but those of you who use it , I mean is hopeless the general view ? , yes |
| 27 | The spiritual writer , Francois Fenelon , had this to say about Christian gentleness : |
| 28 | The second thing to say about humorous crime fiction is that you have to reconcile in your pages that sharp difference between crime , which arises from evil , and laughter , which is by and large a manifestation of good . |
| 29 | What Cable has equipped us with is a theoretical metrics with challenging things to say about poetic competence : metrics , as he puts it ( p. 65 ) , " is not about orthography and written texts apprehended by the eye but about mental structures " . |
| 30 | But what did it say about legal life in Birmingham ? |