Example sentences of "to say [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd like to take those away with you will actually erm reinforce some of the things that I 'm going to say during the next hour . |
| 2 | The southward march of the ice in the Pleistocene , which is to say during the last two or three million years , forced the animal southward in search of prey . |
| 3 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he had to say about the European Community . |
| 4 | In view of what you , Mr. Speaker , have had to say about the Consolidated Fund Bill , can you give some assurance that , if this matter about Maxwell and him laundering money is raised , you will ensure that people such as Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield will be given special tickets to sit in the Gallery so that they can hear the debate and so that they can draw the attention of various channels to the fact that perhaps Mr. Lightman should investigate the missing Maxwell millions , and perhaps we can find out whether Roger Windsor , Mr. Maxwell 's nark , was paid £50,000 out of the Daily Mirror 's missing millions . |
| 5 | In fact , politics may have more to say about the actual extent of a regulatory framework than does economics . |
| 6 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 7 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 8 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 9 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 10 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 11 | has already said that the Tories do n't seem to have any provision for capital and I 'm dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er I 'd be interested to know what they say . |
| 12 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 13 | Gandhi 's teaching concerning the symbolic nature of personifications of Truth in a variety of different forms seems on the face of it to correspond to what Tillich has to say about the symbolic nature of Christian terminology . |
| 14 | The Select Committee ( 1987 ) examin-ing the working of the 1981 Education Act has this to say about the under-fives and special educational needs : |
| 15 | Before concluding , there is a little more to say about the Scaevolan evidence . |
| 16 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 17 | Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical ; for example , in a special review of the world press in 1973 , The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report : |
| 18 | But this idea of God as an object up above the world ( or up above the universe ) is firmly ruled out by all that these religions have to say about the divine nature . |
| 19 | Certainly the Athenians were technically justified in accepting the neutral Corcyra as an ally , despite Corinthian claims that the Thirty Years Peace provisions about neutrals did not envisage their being enrolled by one side to the intended detriment of the other ( as if international treaties usually have anything to say about the future state of mind of the signatories ! |
| 20 | As noted earlier , many of these concerned the design , construction and physical requirements , but he had an equal amount to say about the administrative aspects . |
| 21 | He would dream up all kinds of possibilities — like beetles crawling over different shaped surfaces , and someone being shut up in a box in outer space trying to find out whether he was accelerating or being acted upon by gravity — and would then test out these ideas to see if they had anything to say about the real world . |
| 22 | Is that all you wanted to say about the down side ? |
| 23 | It was best not to think about what Cabochon would have to say about the sexual readjustment . |
| 24 | I was interested to read what you had to say about the safest types of bedding for babies on the Solutions page in your August issue . |
| 25 | That is the only nice thing that I propose to say about the hon. Gentleman . |
| 26 | Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he or my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment had a meeting with business leaders to discuss the policy of the minimum wage , they would tell both the House and the country what business leaders had to say about the damaging effect on jobs that such a minimum wage would have ? |
| 28 | This is not to suggest that each of the sample antiracist statements does not have something pertinent to say about the particular instance of racism which it privileges as paradigmatic . |
| 29 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 30 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |