Example sentences of "say the [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charities say the efforts of well-meaning volunteers is hampering official aid workers . |
| 2 | Researchers say the grafting of pancreatic cells may eventually free many from daily injections . |
| 3 | 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% . |
| 4 | THERE 'S no doubt about it , say the organisers of Anti-Angling Week fish feel pain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Say the set of all rules available to the searcher is called KB , for ’ knowledge base ’ . |
| 9 | Some local people say the fear of such crashes and the noise of the squadron 's manoeuvres has made their lives a misery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ja say the ghosts of painted letters on the trees in the avenues . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 16 | Snake breeder Okan Guney says the birth of twelve emerald tree boas was the most important event in his life . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to face the fact ’ , says the boss of one manufacturer , ‘ that our margins will never be the same again . ’ |
| 18 | Well the card says the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 19 | Most men have maternal teaching to thank for showing them how to do it , says the Guild of British Tie Makers . |
| 20 | The European Community says the problem of sexual harassment can lead to lost productivity and large amounts of sick leave being taken by staff unwilling to face torment in the office or on the shopfloor . |
| 21 | ‘ My first thought was , ‘ who is going to look after the children if I 'm not around ’ , ’ says the mother of three from Harlow . |
| 22 | And after the rescue drama at The Butts flats , on Runcorn 's Castlefields estate , Darren says the taste of part-time firefighting has made him even more determined to earn his retained fire officer status . |
| 23 | It 's spokesman , Zelda Westmeads , says the children of broken marriages would be the first to benefit from the change . |
| 24 | The panel of forecasters who track the largest economies for The Economist says the GDP of nine European countries will contract by 0.4% this year ( chart 1 ) . |
| 25 | But he says the numbers of young people going into custody have ‘ rocketed ’ . |
| 26 | Moderator the erm overture which we passed into an act er in the last sentence of section three says the names of such children , that 's those children who have been admitted to erm communion as children , shall be admitted to the communion roll of the congregation when they have made public profession of their faith that is , when they reach the point at which they make that normal statement and the my understanding would be people whose names are on the communion roll . |
| 27 | The company says the decline of British Coal is a major reason for the sale . |
| 28 | The Trust says the fear of possible litigation after complicated births may encourage some doctors to perform the operations . |
| 29 | The committee says the absence of disciplinary action had undermined the future effectiveness of the bank . |
| 30 | Dean Patterson says the use of solar energy is important to all people around the world … and he says we will say electric cars on the road within five years but even with the sun shining … they 're are breakdowns … punctures and problems … a driver says they 've had a stone fly up and brake the chain but they 'll get going again |