Example sentences of "could say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 2 | There were limits o what one could say about milk yields and the EEC . |
| 3 | If we could say with certainty that they are , then , it seems , we would already know the answer to the problem as to the possibility of a numerical diversity of ontological existents . |
| 4 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 5 | As the prophet Jesus could say with authority , ‘ Amen , amen I say unto you , ’ and claim to speak final truth about God , ‘ We speak of what we know , and bear witness of what we have seen ’ ( John 3:11 ) . |
| 6 | If God could say to Paul ‘ my power is made perfect in weakness ’ ( 2 Corinthians 12:9 ) , the same holds true for you . |
| 7 | And I expect that same thing happens with the work related one , that because you 're never at work on your own , or hardly ever at work on your own , and the same thing when you started , you were n't ever on your own , you could say to people , am I doing it right . |
| 8 | The rest of Europe said yes ; the best that he could say for Britain was maybe . |
| 9 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 10 | One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture . |
| 11 | A clear pattern was emerging and in 1930 Daugherty could say of RKO 's Framed that it offered ‘ cafes and apartments after the presently accepted modern mode ’ and ‘ police autos whining down crowded boulevards , whoopee scenes , police stuff at headquarters , third degree etc. , raids and shooting in equal number and of an equal excellence to many already exhibited ’ . |
| 12 | His was , in many ways , an inauspicious start to life : an 18th-century guide book could say of Frome : |
| 13 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 14 | YOU COULD say without fear of litigation or a severe kicking behind the pub that Stereolab 's greatest strengths is their ability to rip off six other bands within five minutes and still end up with an identifiable sound which is rarely overshadowed by any of its mentors . |
| 15 | But there was nothing she could say in way of denial . |
| 16 | All I could say in reply was : ‘ What for ? ’ |
| 17 | The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom . |