Example sentences of "[adv] say [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often not appreciated , at least in the U.K. that the medical profession has had very little say in the major decisions about the design of the health services . |
| 2 | Royal aides were stunned to be told yesterday of what Morton is apparently saying in the new chapter . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's altogether too much said at the Black Lion , ’ Mrs Yardley said darkly . |
| 4 | The third talk brought the comment : ‘ It is not enough to say to the hungry , ‘ Be fed ’ , or to the naked , ‘ Be clothed ’ . ’ |
| 5 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 6 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 7 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 8 | In contrast , it is not said by the third defendant or by anyone else that the third party was guilty of any form of dishonesty . |
| 9 | That may seem perverse , given what we have just said about the current scene , especially since we do not ourselves believe that states are the only important actors in international relations . |
| 10 | I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has just said about the vile allegations and lies against my hon. and learned Friend — I use both words advisedly — the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) . |
| 11 | And then it just says on the next page , ‘ Fagg angle ’ . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean in Italy for example , you know some of the bigger clubs , you know they 're literally run by your Fiats etc. , big very very big companies , and I would say eventually , I 'm not saying in the near future , but certainly eventually , that that might happen here . |
| 14 | ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) . |
| 15 | Does it not say in the first Sura of the Yasa that the Kha-Khan is above all the servant of his people ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Venables , who freely admits he took on a huge financial burden for his 22 per cent stake , is alleged to want more say on the financial side , but Sugar prefers him to concentrate on coaching . |
| 18 | Lord Marshall had once said about the old Magnox stations that , even if they were n't economic now , there would still be ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 19 | He looked serene — I know that is always said about the dead , and after all , how else would they look ? |
| 20 | I have nothing further to say on the green pages . |
| 21 | Before concluding , there is a little more to say about the Scaevolan evidence . |
| 22 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 23 | The tradition of large , sometimes very large vases , probably still grave-markers , continues and the spreading of the figure-zones on these leads to drawing on an unprecedented scale ( fig. 9 ) : a monumental art of which there will be more to say in the next chapter . |
| 24 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 25 | They were on the front doorstep , or round the front doorstep , probably say on the front doorstep , trouble is they found the front doorstep on the side |
| 26 | If that policy were applied throughout Britain , as was also said by the right hon. Gentleman , it would cost £1.2 billion — an additional cost to the taxpayer which could only mean less investment in roads . |
| 27 | Basically you will listen for maybe seven minutes then you switch off for two minutes then you switch on again and then you try and think well what was I listening to seven minu well you know , three minutes ago what was probably said in the last two minutes . |
| 28 | However , the court also said in the same paragraph that Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 required member states to respect the principle that there should be no discrimination against nationals of other member states . |
| 29 | In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status . |
| 30 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |