Example sentences of "to what be said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 You will only find out what you need to know by really listening to what is said to you .
2 I shall certainly listen carefully to what is said on that matter and give it full consideration .
3 Gently but firmly explain your point of view and listen very carefully to what is said in return .
4 I occasionally wonder whether anyone in Brussels listens to what is said in the House , but my right hon. Friends have made it clear that Britain can not accept any defence arrangement that would weaken NATO or the Atlantic alliance , and that we can not accept any declaration of intent or prior commitment to a single currency .
5 A successful Home Secretary needs enough versatility and openness of mind to listen to what is said before making a choice between tinkering with the status quo and the more radical alternatives which are open to him .
6 On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover .
7 The meeting of the seventeenth of September at the defendants offices is admitted by the defendant erm , but there is no admission as to what was said at the meeting .
8 So as I say there is clearly a substantial er factual dispute between the parties as to what was said on these relevant telephone conversations .
9 The old cases which I have cited have to be read subject to that development and not least to what was said in Thomas 's case .
10 One of the cases also incidentally raises the question of whether , and to what extent , it may be desirable to have regard to what was said in Parliament at the time when the legislation was under discussion .
11 However , in Pickstone v. Freemans Plc. [ 1989 ] A.C. 66 this House , in construing a statutory instrument , did have regard to what was said by the Minister who initiated the debate on the regulations .
12 Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ?
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