Example sentences of "say [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are doubts about the search firm 's ability to work at a senior level , say to find a chief executive , the client may well invite two or three firms in to pitch competitively and see who has the best overall track record and appears most attractive and experienced to the Board . |
| 2 | The designers say implanting the electronic bug wo n't devalue antiques . |
| 3 | If you , if you 're telling him not to look at it , they say look the other way it 's nothing to do with you . |
| 4 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 5 | Something fell in greenhouse and broke the pane to allow the wind to get into the greenhouse , which is oh dear me , as soon as the wind got into the greenhouse as I say blowing the other panes out |
| 6 | but as you say wanted a tiny amount anyway so |
| 7 | ‘ People say play a half-fit Gazza , or give him a game for just a quarter of a match . |
| 8 | Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning . |
| 9 | The sequence of what you say makes a considerable difference to success . |
| 10 | For the designation of the state as ‘ a tool , is said to imply that it is an inert object which can be moulded and manipulated by the ruling class ; and this in turn is said to carry the misleading connotation that the ruling class has a ‘ will ’ . |
| 11 | But the Geordie cartoonist says producing the anarchic Viz is no longer a laughing matter . |
| 12 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 13 | Since we know that he is out to deceive and destroy , everything he says has a second meaning to us . |
| 14 | An example of this is found in , in a recent book by Richard Dawkins , where , and here I quote Dawkins , Dawkins says Lamarckians are traditionally fond of calluses , that is you know , erm , hardened skin , thickened skin , like on the sole of your feet , and he contrasts these Lamarckians who like callouses , with the Darwinian , who he says has a ready answer , in terms of natural selection . |
| 15 | This may require new materials — the experimental rotor is built of wood , which Wortmann says has the best damping . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 17 | In England the desire for an ‘ English ’ tradition is said to hide a deep fear of our present multi-cultural society , a determination to maintain our present class structure , the hierarchies of power which give Oxbridge dons their privileged and cushioned existence . |
| 18 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 19 | Every complex whole is therefore said to contain a principal contradiction and secondary contradictions . |
| 20 | I think maybe with this next issue of procedures we need a separate mode going round which says highlights the key things , yeah . |
| 21 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 22 | Again , the mystic forces are said to serve a rational function , and , in this way , they are rationalized . |
| 23 | It has been said to comprise a central group — Alain Robbe-Grillet , Nathalie Sarraute , Claude Simon , Michel Butor , Robert Pinget — with Marguerite Duras and even Samuel Beckett as ‘ co-opted ’ members . |
| 24 | Internal control can be said to comprise the whole system of controls established by management , in order to : |
| 25 | These are more pervasive influences , not usually confined to any one time , and may be said to define the personal milieu in which the child spends his early years . |
| 26 | Sartre , therefore , can not after all be said to substitute a simple voluntarism for an underlying historical structure . |
| 27 | Under these conditions , the environmental event is said to exert a punishing influence on the behaviour . |
| 28 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
| 29 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 30 | Even the carpet in the state rooms — a fault in whose weave is said to depict a wounded leader of the 1916 uprising , James Connolly who was later executed — has been lifted . |