Example sentences of "say [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now I would say the welfare of those animals is less good because of that ; even if they are not being challenged by a disease . |
2 | He did n't say the vessel was jinxed , but after the sail plan and the interior layout had been redesigned and the ship completed for her new role in Antarctic waters , the B. J. Norsk Forsking , a drilling outfit operating in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea , struck a bad patch following a fall in the price of oil and abandoned the Southern Ocean project . |
3 | No one will deny we face a difficult situation ; no one will say the answers are easy or very obvious , or can be developed without the maximum cooperation between clergy and laity , parishes and deaneries with the diocese and between themselves and lots of goodwill and prayer . |
4 | His Lordship could not say the Home Secretary 's decision was not one which was fully open to him in the exercise of his judgment . |
5 | Henry wished it would not say the word quite so loudly . |
6 | No , television advertising of beer should be stopped because the regulations surrounding it ( do n't show excessive drinking , do n't associate drinking with social or sexual success , do n't even hint that people might enjoy the sensation of being just a little bit , no , do n't even say the word , drunk ) have led to a series of creative executions that wander around aimlessly avoiding the subject of beer altogether , until the very end when they name it , or maybe not . |
7 | Did n't say the word report |
8 | My mum -she does n't say the word sex , she thinks the word sex is dirty -she 'll say , " When you get in a mix up " -that 's what she calls it . |
9 | The detectability of a tachistoscopically presented target word ( let us say the word fork ) should be improved by any of the following : |
10 | Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word . |
11 | Tell you what , I 'll say The Word and transfer Harpo 's head on to your shoulder . ’ |
12 | well Akhenaten took it even further and it was an offence punishable by death to even say the word gods and if you visit Ancient Egypt and walk around the ruins , you will occasionally know they were fond of putting these hieroglyphic erm er inscriptions over everything . |
13 | Juliet could n't say the word . |
14 | Surely you of all people could say the word ? ’ |
15 | No you did n't say the word then . |
16 | He just ca n't say the word ‘ want . ’ |
17 | He says ba he says I did n't say it , says I did n't say the word and then he sa he calls my niece he 'll say to her , he she 's getting boobs now like , she 's twelve , and he goes |
18 | Do n't say the word ! |
19 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
20 | You 'd certainly say the heart has gone from the land hereabouts , would n't you ? ’ |
21 | I liked the painterly side , the tradition of Matisse , but not the witty Duchamp approach — one might even say the homo side — to art . |
22 | ‘ Ca n't say the description rings any bells . ’ |
23 | I would say the second is the more important . |
24 | So you would say the audition work proved successful ? |
25 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |
26 | He should make sure that the students can say the tune , and make necessary corrections . |
27 | ‘ We might as well say the Rosary now , ’ he announced when he put pencil and paper away , taking out his beads and letting them dangle loudly . |
28 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
29 | It occurred to you that you might say the Rosary every day . |
30 | What the plan ca n't do erm , is , I suppose , yeah wel , the only way you can deal with that , well , there 's one of two ways , you can set the plan up , erm , for full benefit let's say the salary was twenty thousand so by here you 're getting ten so you set the plan up , in retrospect for the same twenty thousand pounds , but at the six month 's stage you claim half of it yes , and at the twelve month stage , you 're now claiming the full benefit . |