Example sentences of "to say about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | At first sight , Penrose 's result applied only to stars ; it did n't have anything to say about the question of whether the entire universe had a big bang singularity in its past . |
| 3 | One factor with which the Baghdad planners had failed to reckon seems to have been the contribution to an enemy 's performance of simple patriotism , the force which impels people to fight to defend their native soil against an invader , whatever they may have to say about the way things are run at home . |
| 4 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 5 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 6 | Astrology books have an awful lot to say about the Libran character and words like wishy-washy , lazy , indecisive and unambitious leap right out of the pages . |
| 7 | Yet several of the judges are bothered about democratic accountability and may have something to say about the lack of it in the Community . |
| 8 | The first thing to say about the detective , him or her , is that he or she need not be a professional . |
| 9 | There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary . |
| 10 | historical , biographical , rhetorical , mythical , Freudian , jungian , existentialist , Marxist , structuralist , Christian-allegorical , ethical , exponential , linguistic , phenomenological , archetypal , you name it ; so that when each commentary was written there would be simply nothing further to say about the novel in question . |
| 11 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 12 | ‘ The idea that people with no professional expertise in education could go into schools and have relevant things to say about the teaching methodology seems patent nonsense . ’ |
| 13 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 14 | The sort of questions they were interested in were : What do old people and their carers have to say about the help they receive ? |
| 15 | I have less to say about the country south of the Mallaig railway . |
| 16 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |
| 17 | Pareto does not consider politics or government as subjects separate from sociology , and he has little to say about the concept of power as such . |
| 18 | If you find that what I have to say about the specialisation is difficult , do n't worry . |
| 19 | The Government report Scotland 's Health : A Challenge to us All had nothing to say about the Government 's pivotal role in alleviating poverty and deprivation by increasing employment , providing adequate benefits and tackling homelessness , she added . |
| 20 | Sviatoslav Richter ( DG made such a memorable recording of the piece , that others have had an almost impossible act to follow unless they too have had something comparably original to say about the work . |
| 21 | It 's just that other have had so much more to say about the work . |
| 22 | I erm possibly , have you got a lot more to say about the course ? |
| 23 | I will have much more to say about the biochemistry of these events in the context of my own experiments in the next chapter ; I do n't want to get into great detail here but instead would emphasize that Kandel explains the reflex and its habituation and sensitization by a series of reductions . |
| 24 | Eliot 's Bough was The Golden Bough which had plenty to say about the rebirth of gods accompanying vegetation . |
| 25 | And yet , all Glenny has to say about the army 's role in the present , Bosnian war is that they are ‘ genuinely confused ’ , ‘ waverers ’ pushed by Muslim and Croat provocations into the clutches of ‘ unashamed Serb nationalists ’ . |
| 26 | St Ives , while agreeing with Dotty that Freud might have something to say about the choice of subject , was rather taken with the gift . |
| 27 | ’ Theists argue that this is what they are drawn to say about the whole of reality . |
| 28 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 29 | What might theology for its part have to say about the direction that world seems to be taking ? |
| 30 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |