Example sentences of "say [pron] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Till receipts say nothing about a business ’ overheads . |
| 2 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 3 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 4 | Say something about the death , about Hilary 's death . |
| 5 | Do you have any indication of its source , and say something about the background of people . |
| 6 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |
| 7 | And , in those pages anyway , the book had said nothing about a split . |
| 8 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 9 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 10 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 11 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 12 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 13 | Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour . |
| 14 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 15 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 16 | In truth , the fact that a position of power might be attained as a result of ‘ private ’ contracting in itself says nothing about the legitimacy of the possession of that power , and hence even if the company could be explained in purely contractual terms this would , without more , have little impact on the question of the propriety of state intervention . |
| 17 | Sovereignty says nothing about the state one lives in , whether it is a democracy or an autocracy , but it means constitutional independence . |
| 18 | As the actual cash payout varies according to the firm 's performance rather than changes in the long run payout ratio , the information content of dividends says nothing about the significance of the size of the payout ratio in the valuation of securities . |
| 19 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 20 | It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that the account of this case ( S 1454 ) says nothing about the production of a charter as evidence . |
| 22 | ‘ If the agent says something about a house it must be verified . |
| 23 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 24 | There are some good points made here and there ; Bly points out that fathers in US sitcoms are often portrayed as incompetent , in comparison with their wives , which says something about the way the American man sees himself . |
| 25 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 26 | The Yorkshire wool trade gave rise to a good deal of flamboyant building , which says something about the nature of Yorkshiremen as well as about the immense wealth of the industry . |
| 27 | This account says something about the nature of invention . |
| 28 | This says something about the economy in this region , and the sensible way in which local people conduct their financial affairs . ’ |
| 29 | Lori had said something about a plane to catch , but she had n't said what time . |
| 30 | Or was it Bridget who had said something about an arrest ? |