Example sentences of "say [pron] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 2 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 3 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 4 | If a male customer my age is addressed as sir while I am love , that surely says something about the relative respect in which we are held . |
| 5 | It was years since he had read it but he thought Jung had said something about the universal need for secret societies . |
| 6 | Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be . |
| 7 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 8 | This necessitates them saying something about the rival philosophy of the includers in addition to conveying the appearance of expertise . |
| 9 | Analysts were mildly bullish following Storage Technology Corp 's first quarter report — figures , page five — and after an order imbalance on the New York Stock Exchange , the shares were up $1.125 or 4.7% at $25.125 in early trading on Friday : the numbers beat Wall Street expectations , and the company said that operating performance exceeded its expectations , largely as a result of the strengthening in the US enterprise-related business ; Europe remained slow as a result of weak economies , but the mid-range business has begun to benefit from new products ; cash grew to $325m from $118m at the end of 1992 ; it studiously avoided saying anything about the late Iceberg disk array . |
| 10 | Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment . |
| 11 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 12 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 13 | Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair . |
| 14 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 15 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 16 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 17 | The legend of Noah 's ark once purported to say something about the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 18 | However before examining it I want to say something about the general response of community educators to the problems facing the working-class in N. Ireland . |
| 19 | It enables the scientist to say something about the internal experiences of others without the tedium of having to ask the subjects themselves . |
| 20 | Before justifying our claim , however , we wish to say something about the main criticisms levelled at Realism . |
| 21 | With that warning let me briefly say something about the general topic . |
| 22 | But we must first say something about the earlier arguments . |
| 23 | Before I refer to the particular provisions dealing with administrative receivers , I should also say something about the statutory background to the provisions and the evident purpose of the innovation of the concept of an administrative receiver . |
| 24 | In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation . |