Example sentences of "say [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same can be said of the next dog of great influence : Ch. |
| 2 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 3 | See , I think we 're obliged to now say something about erm these general skills , I think in light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks |
| 4 | And certainly not in the light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks that 's |
| 5 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 6 | Right , agree with what councillor and councillor have had to say about the first part of this . |
| 7 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 : |
| 8 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the Maastricht bill : |
| 9 | This stance left Labour with nothing to say in the last week of its campaign and unwilling to communicate with anyone outside its own ranks , except through the media . |
| 10 | John Howell , for Anthony Hazell , the district auditor , said on the second day of a hearing into the legality of the council 's £6bn deals on the market : ‘ The council sold 49 gilt options on the mistaken belief that it was reducing its exposure . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 12 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 13 | Does it not say in the first Sura of the Yasa that the Kha-Khan is above all the servant of his people ? ’ |