Example sentences of "[verb] say [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sierra Club Legal Defence Fund has said of the decline of the murrelet " this is further evidence that our forest ecosystems no longer are capable of supporting the species that depend on them " . |
| 2 | However I am not so enamoured of the sound of my own voice that , bearing in mind what er Dr has said about the amount of business , I would insist on inflicting it upon it if someone would be prepared to second it and the convenor and the assembly be prepared to accept it . |
| 3 | Will the Minister confirm that , notwithstanding what the hon. Lady has said about the cluster of leukaemia in the vicinity of Thurso , all the scientific studies that have been done fail to prove any connection with work being done at Dounreay ? |
| 4 | The Health Minister , Virginia Bottomley has said in the House of Commons this afternoon that haemophiliacs who contracted the H I V virus through imported blood products , can not expect further compensation . |
| 5 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 6 | The Department 's courses accordingly aim to give an understanding of what German writers and thinkers have had to say in the past of the age and the society within which and for which they wrote and make students familiar with contemporary life and literature , art and film in the German-speaking countries . |
| 7 | I was going to say about the mother of parliament . |
| 8 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 9 | ’ Theists argue that this is what they are drawn to say about the whole of reality . |
| 10 | When the Minister replied in Committee to our amendments and proposed new clauses , he said — as he has tended to say throughout the passage of the Bill — that the Government can take to themselves the power to give certain safeguards . |
| 11 | The caretaker was heard saying to the professor of Hebrew , ‘ It 's only curiosity Sir ’ . |
| 12 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 13 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 14 | People must be allowed say in the development of their own environment . |
| 15 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 16 | On that basis I would be content to say , as we did say at the conclusion of the hearing , that the appeal should be dismissed and that we would affirm Ward J. 's declaration that it would be lawful for the hospital to administer blood to Miss T. |
| 17 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 18 | I remembered what Edward had said about the presence of all the elements , wanting to work together , to meet and merge . |
| 19 | She eventually articulated a philosophy which depended in large and explicit measure on repudiating what Conservatism had said about the role of the State for the past 30 years . |
| 20 | Alexei remembered what Burun had said about the definition of independence , and he smiled grimly . |
| 21 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 22 | Hammers : Despite what we 've said about the superiority of screws for making secure fixings , a hammer is a tool no home should be without . |
| 23 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 24 | It does say on the front of it but |
| 25 | In view of what we have said about the suitability of particular registers for writing , you may be surprised that we ourselves are adopting a relatively conversational register in this book . |
| 26 | This is fully in accord with what I have said about the expression of " we/they " oppositions in other contexts . |
| 27 | Paradoxically , much of what I have said about the writing of straightforward mystery stories applies just as much to inverted stories , the books that seemingly set out on an exactly opposite course . |
| 28 | For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the first time my students have said at the end of the book that they love grammar ! ’ |
| 30 | But if what I have said by the light of a new candle is true — and who can doubt it ? — then even the elderly beeches and majestic old oaks of a remembered Forest of Dean are not capable of withstanding the fungoid of stress or the vegetable odours of spiritual decay . |