Example sentences of "say [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | but as you say wanted a tiny amount anyway so |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The sequence of what you say makes a considerable difference to success . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Since we know that he is out to deceive and destroy , everything he says has a second meaning to us . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Every complex whole is therefore said to contain a principal contradiction and secondary contradictions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Again , the mystic forces are said to serve a rational function , and , in this way , they are rationalized . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sartre , therefore , can not after all be said to substitute a simple voluntarism for an underlying historical structure . |
| 15 | Under these conditions , the environmental event is said to exert a punishing influence on the behaviour . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 19 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 20 | Fran nodded , too incensed by what Luke had said to frame a proper answer . |
| 21 | The drums are independently suspended and are said to give a consistent cut and easy movement over undulating ground . |
| 22 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 23 | M. F. D. Young has pointed out that , while scientists of different persuasions can be said to form a professional group sharing assumptions and methodologies , the same is not by any means true of the humanities or the social sciences . |
| 24 | In this respect , the " they " can be said to form a cataphoric link with the references to " the soldiers ' and " the officer " later in the narrative . |
| 25 | That says find a new job . |
| 26 | At the Oxford Arms in Hereford , Landlady , Maryse Wheeler says running a real local with regular customers is the answer . |
| 27 | Only here , and in mining districts like Asturias , could there be said to exist a modern bourgeoisie and an industrial working class . |
| 28 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 29 | If Shostakovich 's cycle of 15 symphonies can be said to represent a musical thread passing through the whole of the composer 's public life , then it can argued that his cycle of 15 string quartets represents the private persona of the man behind the mask from the beginning of his personal anguish in the late 1930s until his death in 1975 . |
| 30 | Since documents usually have an overall structure , objective and topic , they can be said to represent a particular domain ( e.g. banking , insurance , etc . ) . |