Example sentences of "say the [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | say the increase in gas-fired power stations means traditional coal ones are becoming surplus to requirements . |
| 2 | Charities say the efforts of well-meaning volunteers is hampering official aid workers . |
| 3 | Before you start saying the words you will probably need to tap a quite fast regular beat , and then say the sentences with each syllable given one beat , saying one syllable at each beat . |
| 4 | The students say the formation in 1990 of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party — actually a coalition of parties — was a crime against democracy . |
| 5 | Researchers say the grafting of pancreatic cells may eventually free many from daily injections . |
| 6 | French auctioneers say the contrast between British and French rates of VAT ( 5.5% sales tax on original works , books and certain signed pieces of furniture and 18.6% on the rest ) will cause art works to be drained towards London to the detriment of the Paris art market . |
| 7 | Insiders say the issue of new SCO stock will not dilute existing shareholdings significantly : former president Larry Michels has 16% , his son and current chief technology officer Doug , holds 20% , Microsoft has 16% , employees own 22% and other investors have 26% . |
| 8 | THERE 'S no doubt about it , say the organisers of Anti-Angling Week fish feel pain . |
| 9 | Some say the stone from these quarries was the hardest of the Dartmoor granites . |
| 10 | I would advise anyone taken to Castlereagh to sit on the floor and say the Rosary for seven days . |
| 11 | Say the distance between two species is the number of characteristics which they do n't have in common . |
| 12 | The analysts say the fall in net assets from their December 1991 total of £82.0 million will have precipitated clauses in the company 's loan agreement requiring them to seek renegotiation of terms . |
| 13 | Imagine , in some generation in the past , that a species contains N individuals , and hence 2 N copies of some particular gene , say the gene for cytochrome C. Let the total mutation rate per gene be m ( that is , the chance of a mutation of some kind occurring somewhere in the gene in a given sperm or egg ) . |
| 14 | It 's possible the hoard was actually found somewhere else on the site — say the cellar of one of the houses — and put in the flue for safe-keeping , to be drained away gradually . |
| 15 | These services have brought in new customers — Lombard NatWest claims more than 300 — but some rivals say the marketing of these services has been less aggressive during the recession , given the higher risks often associated with new business . |
| 16 | Those who advise students say the pressures on those who seem destined for great things is enormous . |
| 17 | Let me make clear that when I say the conference of 1923 , and that night in particular , constituted a turning point in my professional development , I am speaking very much in terms of my own more humble standards . |
| 18 | I say the light on this about 11 years ago to the month . |
| 19 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 20 | Say the set of all rules available to the searcher is called KB , for ’ knowledge base ’ . |
| 21 | Some local people say the fear of such crashes and the noise of the squadron 's manoeuvres has made their lives a misery . |
| 22 | History , in short , say the proponents of this first theory , has until now discouraged the Greeks from learning the proper relationship between the citizen and the democratic state . |
| 23 | Er they 're very good in fact , I mean even the erm if you look at say the result from Clerical Medical over ten years , erm fifteen thousand invested , er currently er returning something like forty three thousand over er the five the ten year term , so that 's not bad . |
| 24 | I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what it was like to be a child between say the age of five and ten . |
| 25 | They say the emergence of large purchasing consortiums could lead to the merger of the Northern Region 's 16 districts into six super districts , leading to confusion and prompting some staff to quit . |
| 26 | Ja say the ghosts of painted letters on the trees in the avenues . |
| 27 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 28 | He said , how are y he said the wiring on this , he said if you plug this in , he said ho , you 'd electrocute yourself ! |
| 29 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 30 | Dame Ninette de Valois says the clue to any national ballet style is its folk-dance tradition . |