Example sentences of "say [verb] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Army union leaders have instructed their members to refuse to fill in the questionnaire , which they say undermines the integrity of the Irish Army . |
| 2 | It was Rosalind Garton , the last student to qualify from Scotland , now with flourishing classes in St Andrews , who we say extolling the virtues of Medau on BBC television 's ‘ The Garden Party ’ in 1990 . |
| 3 | I 'm an extremely patient soul as you well know , but if you say Find the value of X to me again How are you gon na find the value of X ? |
| 4 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 5 | The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction . |
| 6 | Thus , a child may be said to acquire the rules of grammar , although it is difficult to see how such rules can be established as a result of numerous discrete learning experiences . |
| 7 | The haddock is said to bear the fingerprint of St Peter — two dark smudges behind the gills — as he took the fish from the water . |
| 8 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | and then one says applying the test of severance , er is there a , is there a residual agreement to be enforced , the answer maybe yes it maybe no |
| 10 | Plants rarely flower in cool climates ; tying the stems in a knot is said to increase the size of the cloves . |
| 11 | Secret chambers abound within , one of which is said to contain the skeleton of the Monster of Glamis . |
| 12 | If all can be made relatively understandable to newcomers , then they will be better disposed to listening to the word of God preached with conviction , which the Bible says contains the seed of life to those who are otherwise perishing . |
| 13 | On the north-west corner of the tower is an ordnance survey mark ( approximately level with the key-hole ) which is said to indicate the height of the tower of Holy Trinity church at Kingston-upon-Hull . |
| 14 | It was said to drink the milk of at least nine cows daily . |
| 15 | John the Baptist when he saw Jesus at the beginning of the earthly ministry of Jesus , he says behold the lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world and on him was laid all of our sin all of our debt . |
| 16 | A few years ago , in the brief period of enthusiasm and expansion after Russell , those responsible for writing reports , conducting research , making recommendations , did so in a fairly jovial cavalier fashion that could be said to characterise the type of men who operated their way to the top in adult education . |
| 17 | For another , although finer distinctions are made among both Shetlanders and incomers , the stereotypes which are said to characterise the sub-divisions of each group do not differ so much in kind as in degree . |
| 18 | For example , the dominant role of the Treasury and the Bank of England in economic policy-making and the absence of administrative counterweights in the ministries concerned with industrial policy is often said to reflect the dominance of British financial capital ( e.g. Longstreth 1979 ) . |
| 19 | So diminished status differentials in private companies is said to reflect the existence of a more egalitarian society where leadership is based on personal merit . |
| 20 | If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature , it is the blind watchmaker . |
| 21 | If there had been no reason for the attack , it called for a severe sentence ; in one sense , revenge attacks , which themselves strike a blow at public justice , could be said to aggravate the gravity of the offence . |
| 22 | At that time , the building could have been said to typify the dereliction of the whole London docks area . |
| 23 | Secondly , that it is politically naive , because such an argument could be said to justify the kind of political move I have just mentioned , in which some institutions of higher education might be denied research funding . |
| 24 | The agreement is said to mark the beginning of a close strategic alliance between the two companies . |
| 25 | August could be said to mark the start of the great divide between gardening in Scotland and the rest of the UK . |
| 26 | Unisys Corp has signed up to use Univel Inc 's UnixWare as the operating system on those iAPX-86-based U 6000 workstations and entry-level servers it 's expected to introduce this spring : the agreement is said to mark the start of a close strategic alliance between the pair . |
| 27 | In most histories the massacre is said to mark the end of Mughal Delhi 's greatness , yet Khan clearly sees the invasion as only a temporary setback for the city . |
| 28 | The maleness of Christ may be said to form the linchpin of this picture . |
| 29 | In a sense , such clearly defined ground rules are said to reduce the alienation of labour from management , and provide a secure base for corporate harmony . |
| 30 | The violence and confusion which Diodorus ( xi.7 1 ) says marked the end of Xerxes ( 465 ) and the accession of Artaxerxes , who acquired the throne by murdering his elder brother , led Egypt in the south of the empire and Baktria in the east to revolt in the hope of freedom . |