Example sentences of "say [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The qualitative approach may be acceptable for small systems , but for more substantial enterprises it would be surprising if the development of more disciplined and rigorous approaches , say through the wider use of mathematics , would not be more successful and lead to new types of opportunity . |
| 2 | One must be a little careful with the word ‘ translation ’ here : it is fairly innocuous in the present context of WALK , translated into the string of sub-functions , but much less so in the earlier use of the relation of a program in LISP , say into a lower-level program in machine code . |
| 3 | It is possible to provide motivation and to see that students are actively involved , say in a practical exercise during which they receive feedback as to their progress . |
| 4 | Say in a locked room with no witnesses . |
| 5 | ‘ I could run a club like this , ’ they say in an expansive sort of way , leaning back as they enunciate every word ever so carefully . |
| 6 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 7 | They usually say to the old love about the new , ‘ I love you but am in love with her , ’ meaning that their nature is divided : their protective and uxorious souls reach out for the old love : their sexuality towards the new . |
| 8 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 9 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 10 | I say to the hon. Member for Harrow , West that I think that the right hon. Gentleman 's words will have reached the chairman of the Audit Commission . |
| 11 | Whatever it says about an achieved consensus on the slave trade , the 1814 campaign provides no support for a developing popular antislavery which incorporated emancipation . |
| 12 | It is time now to consider more precisely what the attitudinist says about the actual meaning of typically ethical words , like ‘ good ’ ’ ought' ’ right' and ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 13 | I tried to apply what Wittgenstein says about the dual use of the word ‘ strain' to the dual use of the word ‘ hot ’ , and wrote up my conclusions in a paper entitled ‘ Berkeley and Sensations of Heat . ’ |
| 14 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 15 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 16 | I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said about the unacceptable level of unemployment in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | Whilst a number of writers have commented upon his contributions to debates upon current policy problems , little has been said about the theoretical basis of these contributions . |
| 18 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 19 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 20 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 22 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 23 | Jane had said after the shameful confrontation at the ball . |
| 24 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 26 | If what Tillich says of the Buddhist concept of compassion were taken to apply also to the Hindu concept of compassion , then his assessment is equally inaccurate in that context . |
| 27 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 28 | Indeed their background as Greek intellectuals would have made it nonsensical to them to have said of a particular item in our world ( a particular human being ) that he was ‘ God ’ . |
| 29 | Thus a given verbal lexeme such as " exist " can be said of an infinite number of different supports : I exist , you exist , this chair exists , etc . |
| 30 | Much the same can be said of the widespread use of ‘ suggestion schemes ’ , which although not compulsory are so widespread that employees feel obliged to participate in them . |