Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing . |
| 2 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 5 | In truth , the fact that a position of power might be attained as a result of ‘ private ’ contracting in itself says nothing about the legitimacy of the possession of that power , and hence even if the company could be explained in purely contractual terms this would , without more , have little impact on the question of the propriety of state intervention . |
| 6 | It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers . |
| 7 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 8 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 9 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 10 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 11 | Sovereignty says nothing about the state one lives in , whether it is a democracy or an autocracy , but it means constitutional independence . |
| 12 | However , this says nothing about the under — or overpricing of their insurance services . |
| 13 | As the actual cash payout varies according to the firm 's performance rather than changes in the long run payout ratio , the information content of dividends says nothing about the significance of the size of the payout ratio in the valuation of securities . |
| 14 | Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour . |
| 15 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 16 | It is worth noting that the account of this case ( S 1454 ) says nothing about the production of a charter as evidence . |
| 17 | Everybody says owt about the , whatever it is . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | The Yorkshire wool trade gave rise to a good deal of flamboyant building , which says something about the nature of Yorkshiremen as well as about the immense wealth of the industry . |
| 20 | This account says something about the nature of invention . |
| 21 | There are some good points made here and there ; Bly points out that fathers in US sitcoms are often portrayed as incompetent , in comparison with their wives , which says something about the way the American man sees himself . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It also says something about the shortcomings of Mr Aznar . |
| 24 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 25 | I call that a restricted international perspective because it does not explain or attempt to explain how production is organized internationally and , to my mind , a theory can not do that unless it says something about the changes in the organization of labour that go along with innovations in machinery , transport , instruments and products . |
| 26 | A rather more promising approach might be to treat the existential quantifier itself as a kind of predicate — a second-level predicate to be precise — which , in our example above , says something about the " first-level " predicate " is human " , namely that the latter can be completed to produce a true proposition . |
| 27 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 28 | This says something about the economy in this region , and the sensible way in which local people conduct their financial affairs . ’ |
| 29 | The importance of racism in contemporary politics betrays something about the nature of the painful transition this country , and the overdeveloped world as a whole , is undergoing . |
| 30 | None of the foregoing says anything about the ‘ Silmarils ’ themselves , the jewels which give their name to The Silmarillion , and whose fate determines its plot . |