Example sentences of "is say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 2 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 3 | Look at the start of the play — Catherine is devoted to Eddie and Eddie is kind and even jokes about her independence — this is seen on page 21 , when Eddie says that Catherine will move away when she gets a job ( but this is said without resentment ) and Catherine denies it . |
| 4 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 5 | When consonant clues are fewer , it takes longer to translate what is said into sense , but this does not mean that one 's brain is slower ! |
| 6 | But what is said about Jesus really expresses the truth about the human race as a whole . |
| 7 | Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study . |
| 8 | Nothing is said about residence orders , either that they can be made or that they can not be made ex parte . |
| 9 | ‘ All that is said about Milton 's ‘ sympathy ’ with Satan , his expression in Satan of his own pride , malice , folly , misery and lust , is true in a sense , but not in a sense peculiar to Milton ’ . |
| 10 | Little is said about workers ' consciousness ( awareness and interpretation of their situation ) , or the social and political impulses towards joining the labour movement which have undoubtedly been important in Western Europe . |
| 11 | As Britain 's only national pop music station at present , Radio 1 is most likely to interest aspiring rock and pop musicians , so I will explain its workings and policies in some detail ( although much of what is said about Radio 1 will also be applicable to Radio 2 ) . |
| 12 | When we feel good we look good , so much that is said about health might equally well come under the heading of beauty . |
| 13 | ‘ The figures of the heads are beautifully done , ’ noted Selby , ‘ [ and ] are quite sufficient to identify the species , [ but ] I wish he had added a little more to the letter press as not a single word is said about habits , a description of the plumage alone being given . ’ |
| 14 | Nothing is said about cross-examination , not even a request for the facility to be afforded if it would be compatible with foreign procedures ; no detail is given as to the manner in which the evidence is to be ‘ reduced into writing ’ , so that , for example , no preference is expressed for a verbatim transcript rather than a summary minute prepared by the foreign judge . |
| 15 | It is certainly the case that in much of what is said about pension comparisons with Europe , areas that would lead to a substantial loss among some British pensioners , including those to whom my hon. Friend referred , are often overlooked . |
| 16 | Fundamentalism , then , is a simple expression of a faith which is said to enshrine the sacred tenets of a belief-structure . |
| 17 | Another target for attack is City pressure for short-term profit flow , which is said to handicap industry 's ability to invest in plant and equipment and R&D . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , alphabetic writing , and still more , print , is said to privilege sight quite strikingly at the expense of the other senses , and the effects of this on the way we think and perceive reality — through a linear , mechanical , single-point-of-view consciousness — then have the cultural consequences described earlier . |
| 19 | At any energy there will be at least one closed orbit , and this orbit is said to parent the family of non-closed orbits that librate around it . |
| 20 | The influence of the Genovese crime family in this $2 billion-a-year market is said to date back 70 years . |
| 21 | The change in the attitude to the appointment of barrister-politicians as judges is said to date from Lord Haldane 's Chancellorship ( 1912–15 ) when legal and professional qualifications became the criteria , though at first the change was not extended to the most senior appointments . |
| 22 | The uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 23 | As we go to press , the uncensored unofficial number of Iraqi deaths is said to number as many as 300,000 . |
| 24 | Whether it is said of Krishna or Vishnu or Siva , the same structure of religious thought recurs . |
| 25 | The Maid of Norway died ( it is said from seasickness ) on her way from her homeland in 1290 , bad weather having forced her ship to seek shelter on Orkney . |
| 26 | It is said among devotees that 100 per cent mental or physical control of an Akitas is quite impossible — they respond only to rapport and never to bullying . |
| 27 | The final two chapters , 14 and 15 , are to some extent dependent upon what is said in chapters 6 and 7 . |
| 28 | There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world . |
| 29 | Never a truer word is said in jest , Roirbak thought . |
| 30 | Not content even with this level of political castration , Mr Suharto has instructed the security forces to keep a close watch on what is said in mosques . |