Example sentences of "to say [pron] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say nothing of modern educational notions . |
| 2 | It is a label applied to any book adults read in some distant childhood , adults who are out of touch with the current wealth of books ( to say nothing of other media ) that are available to young children today . |
| 3 | The leaders of the Trades Union Congress , governors of the BBC , the Archbishops of York and Canterbury , to say nothing of grand figures like the former foreign secretary , Lord Halifax , the former chancellor and home secretary who gave his name to the wartime Anderson shelter , Lord Waverley , and the sainted Lady Violet Bonham Carter were all against . |
| 4 | And what about the scent of the bracken , the feel of the grassy bank we 're sitting on — to say nothing of those people over there who , like ourselves , are resting before climbing to the top ? ’ |
| 5 | When he played the old rustic Arthur Fallowfield , radio audiences all over Britain — to say nothing of those listening to the BBC 's various overseas services — sat up waiting for the virtually immortal words , ‘ the answer lies in the soil ’ . |
| 6 | If we want , as we do , an intelligent , open , ambitious population from whom managers and workers alike will be drawn , to say nothing of creative and imaginative people in all fields , then the segregation of children into different schools must be wrong . |
| 7 | No one was allowed to think that his origins were less than upper middle class , to say nothing of aristocratic . |
| 8 | Gainsborough 's house … to say nothing of huge grey sweeps of empty beach from which , at Aldeburgh , you can buy goggle-eyed skate direct from the fishing boats as they come out of the water . |
| 9 | Our menus in Scotland included smoked salmon , smoked sea trout , crab and scampi , to say nothing of most varieties of fresh fish in copious quantities , some caught by ourselves . |
| 10 | ‘ There is already a global market worth many millions of pounds per annum for CD-ROMs , to say nothing of hand-held systems like the Sony Discman and the electronic books produced by Franklin and others . ’ |
| 11 | I never completely fathomed the relationship between Andrew and Judith Evelyn , both creatures of considerable intellect and high temperament , to say nothing of dramatic talent . |
| 12 | The [ Gold Coast ] line is equipped with Webb and Thompson 's instruments , and to explain the electric staff regulations , in a temperature somewhere around 90 degrees , to a native stationmaster who understands about as much of English as the average English railway official does of French , is a task which white officials feelingly affirm requires a considerable amount of patience , to say nothing of linguistic gymnastics . |
| 13 | We are not yet able to say which of these two parameters changed at the glitches . |
| 14 | Much of sociological research is , we might say following Garfinkel , trying to " find the animal in the foliage " or , to extend the implication of the metaphor , trying to see if an idea can be made to say something of sociological interest . |
| 15 | put the onus back on me now to say what of that stock we want to keep before they throw it away . |
| 16 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |