Example sentences of "be make a statement " in BNC.
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| 1 | No what amazes me Mr Chairman is that here we are , we 're being cost conscious on every ground and we 're saying we 're making a statement that we enter into an exercise that we have no idea , we 're not asking for the actual cost , we are asking , we are asking you must of had an idea what it would cost or I feel Mr Chairman that that , can I put it mildly , lack of planning and certainly financial planning possibly |
| 2 | Three days later the Standard announced that Oscar Kambona would be making a statement in London . |
| 3 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |
| 4 | I shall be making a statement in the next few days about offending while on bail . |
| 5 | You are making a statement about a child and it is going on the child 's record . ’ |
| 6 | Children who do this are making a statement about not needing comfort from adults , while at another level needing them desperately and choosing a place where they know they will be forced out . |
| 7 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 8 | I 'm convinced Alison was shot because she was white but she had no power in constructing the society they were making a statement against . ’ |
| 9 | Does it follow that he is making a statement , reporting his mental act of knowing , as opposed to doing something ? |
| 10 | A speaker normally signals his/her point of departure by indicating whether s/he is making a statement , asking a question , or giving an order . |
| 11 | Shell is to make a statement on prices next week . |
| 12 | You have two choices : one is to indulge in jealousy , the other is to make a statement to yourself : |
| 13 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 14 | To choose to study ‘ arts ’ rather than ‘ science ’ is to make a statement about the values one considers important . |
| 15 | The discussion of relative autonomy suggests that to say that a state is capitalist is to make a statement at a very high level of abstraction . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister is to make a statement on Northern Ireland in Commons this afternoon . |
| 17 | In my rejection of the image I saw I was making a statement , the apparent text of which read , ‘ I do n't want to look like ( be ) that . ’ |
| 18 | He was making a statement that was demeaning to her , and yet her flesh burned , familiar fire stabbed at her loins and her body stirred against his , jerkily at first and then involuntarily adopting a rhythm that was both sinuous and surging , blatantly erotic . |
| 19 | It was just that she was making a statement herself in dressing up . |
| 20 | Humphrey Atkins , who was in effect deputy Foreign Secretary and the chief Foreign Office spokesman in the Commons , was to make a statement at 11 a.m . |
| 21 | What he did not know until late on was that his former Chancellor was to make a statement on his resignation . |