Example sentences of "said at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born .
2 No , I thought it might 've said at the back and Dinosaur
3 I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust .
4 It should be said at the outset that this is not the usual legal meaning of the word .
5 But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability .
6 On the other hand , despite the tone of much of the political debate in the United Kingdom , it should be said at the outset that questions such as the transfer of powers ( or sovereignty ) to the Community , the direct application and direct effect of Community law , and the correlative theory of the primacy of such provisions of Community law when they conflict with provisions of national law , were all established aspects of Community law when we joined in 1973 , and are not new problems relating to Maastricht .
7 It should be said at the outset , however , that the terminological distinction is not always maintained : it is somewhat blurred in the context of citizenship of the Union , which is inserted into the Community Treaty in a new Article 8 and 8a to 8e .
8 It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out .
9 But I come back to what I 've said at the outset Mr Mayor in conclusion .
10 but there was n't said at the council , they said that they realize that what there has to be done ca n't be done so , so quickly , you see the past in what er back end of October
11 They had said at the school she had had a screaming session .
12 ‘ Well , from what was said at the board meeting … ’
13 Unhappily the men were sent for from their temporary quarters in the town , and goodbyes were said at the castle .
14 As was said at the start of this chapter , we need to fall in love with Christ and seek his face .
15 For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention .
16 Do you recall anything being said at the briefing to that effect and if so who by ?
17 All he had said at the interview , apart from ‘ I completely agree with you ’ and ‘ You are absolutely right , Headmaster ! ’ was ‘ Let's get this show on the road ! ’
18 One Russian paper , described as ‘ highly conservative ’ , contained a piece , some of which , it was said at the time , was barely capable of being rendered into printable English .
19 A lot was said at the time .
20 If you later disagree with the company about what was said at the time , having your own record could prove invaluable .
21 We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment .
22 Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence .
23 On the latter point , the hon. Gentleman is well aware of what was said at the time of the Barlow Clowes affair , following an investigation by the ombudsman into what was seen to be a unique set of circumstances .
24 ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’
25 that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm
26 ‘ It 's the first time my students have said at the end of the book that they love grammar ! ’
27 It is certain that the vice-chancellor in the chair gained the impression from what was said at the meeting that they were forced to elect from a weak field of candidates .
28 The meeting of the seventeenth of September at the defendants offices is admitted by the defendant erm , but there is no admission as to what was said at the meeting .
29 It was said at the height of his fame that Bob was giving a living to ten Jamaicans .
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