Example sentences of "[adj] to say [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly the result of an upbringing that had instilled in him the belief that it was wrong to say unkind things about people behind their backs ; indeed , a lack of verbal malice , and a determination to try always to see the best in people , is one of his qualities . |
| 2 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 3 | The Landrat of Ebermannstadt in Upper Franconia , frank as usual in his comment , reported that people in his area Were too careful to say such things as ‘ Hitler will give us no peace till everything has had it ’ , but said instead ‘ there wo n't be any peace before … ’ , and meant the same thing . |
| 4 | It would be insipid to say this book loves football , it does n't , it lusts after it with a taste for the perverse and the painful . |
| 5 | I wo n't kid you , and it 's very hard to say good morning John how are you , when you 're thinking , and you 're thinking you stay your side of . |
| 6 | In this screen , I 'm glad to say that public opinion you see can shift things . |
| 7 | Being an ex-Hamble aircraft , I am glad to say that G-ARJU , the example flown for this article , has civilised elevator and rudder trims . |
| 8 | Some French cheeses , German sausages and Italian hams , for example , fall into the same category , and can be found in shops and supermarkets , as John Gummer is wont to say these days , ‘ from Scotland to Sicily . ’ |
| 9 | There really is n't anything good to say this time — not one thing ’ . |
| 10 | It becomes important to say these things in view of the fact that Christian people tend to look to Jesus ' teaching and actions as exemplary of what human relationships should be . |
| 11 | I 'm happy to say those conditions have been met in full . |
| 12 | I think we should all be able to say that word and feel proud about it . |
| 13 | In which case then we should be able to say that Saturday working costs X X pounds per item , and in the week it costs Y pounds per item . |
| 14 | It would not be unkind to say this movie revels in despair . |
| 15 | Yes , Chairman I , I think members will be aware that er , we have er , always erm , enjoyed a very close relationship with Age Concern culture , and erm , they do invaluable work on behalf older people in the county , and I think like all organizations and in the changing climate , there was a need for them to er , to , to review their situation , and in , in the changing world , and I 'm pleased to say that Age Concern recognized that there was a need to er , to adjust their relationship with the County Council , primarily to enable them to , to further develop and take advantage of the funding opportunities that are available now under the new arrangements for care in the community . |
| 16 | Ii is perhaps fair to say that experience of the kind of thinking involved also results in more perceptive provision for those children whose learning difficulties are less pronounced . |
| 17 | Okay , so would it be fair to say some people would want to put that down ? |
| 18 | Mind you it was only their wages are only comparable to say some wages that they get in nuclear power station . |
| 19 | I found it very difficult to say this word , and so I decided to shorten it and call them Houys . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry to say all hopes of a tranquil day are totally out of the question . |
| 21 | In 1750 , although Pomeranian Słupsk had already become German Stolp , it had been possible to say that east of a line drawn from the tiny Pomeranian fishing hamlet of Rowy to the hamlet of Tuchomie , Polish or various Slav dialects were spoken . |
| 22 | In contrast , in many languages ( notably the S. E. Asian languages , including Korean , Japanese and Javanese ) it is possible to say some sentence glossing as " The soup is hot " and by the choice of a linguistic alternate ( e.g. for " soup " ) encode respect to the addressee without referring to him , in which case we have an addressee honorific system . |
| 23 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 24 | to say that if er , it is not a SAT year , we are obliged to say these levels have not been confirmed by SATs so the only in year nine we , we do n't need to say that . |
| 25 | While it is correct to say that appropriation for purposes of section 3(1) includes the latter sort of act , it does not necessarily follow that no other act can amount to an appropriation and in particular that no act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner can in any circumstances do so . |
| 26 | It 's nice to say this year its come back home to Shrewsbury , literally a stone 's throw down the road . |
| 27 | I think perhaps if I just add a point to that er although we have as four nations agreed on the revised requirement there , I believe it 's true to say that development has progressed to such an extent that probably we will have the original requirement in practice , even though we 've no longer specified it . |
| 28 | While interest in Japanese aircraft is certainly facing a renaissance now that the fiftieth anniversary of the daring Pearl Harbor attack is upon us ( see page 10 ) , it is still true to say that interest in the hardware of the Imperial Japanese forces is still low with the warbird community , despite the recent pioneering efforts of the Museum of Flight at Santa Monica . |
| 29 | In an article co-authored by , writes in the current issue of South African Journal of Science that ‘ it would probably be true to say that science as a thriving , innovative , intellectual enterprise within the CSIR is dead ’ . |
| 30 | I think it 's very true to say major changes since nineteen eighty when our plan was approved . |