Example sentences of "says [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can rely neither on what it says about the state of the economy nor on the little that it reveals about the state of the public finances . |
| 2 | erm there 's no doubt that our society , whatever kind of sentimental things it says about the status of the housewife , gives the housewife extremely low status , and that power and status and respect in society are accorded to people who achieve things in the work world occupationally outside the home , and given that that is so I think women , to increase their self respect , have got to achieve things outside the home , yes . |
| 3 | This identification with , and punishment of , the mother-goddess is vividly portrayed in what Edith Weigert-Vowinkel says about the cult of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her castrated son , Attis . |
| 4 | I understand what the hon. Gentleman says about the nature of the charge laid against certain people and the roles that they may have played in particular crimes . |
| 5 | RIGHT now , thoughts are inevitably turning to home heating , and the Coal Advisory Service says for the majority of homes in the province , that means solid fuel |
| 6 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 7 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ This ’ , he says with a wave of his hand , ‘ is the Periodicals Room , that ’ , with a nod , ‘ is CBI , a universal English language bibliography , dictionary arrangement with author , title and subject entries : You must remember that the main entry is author ’ … |
| 9 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I know how to do housekeeping , ’ she says with a touch of irony . |
| 11 | ‘ I have had no hassle from the other women but the prison guards at Risley were awful , they kept calling me the Duchess , ’ she says with a touch of nastiness . |
| 12 | ‘ No , ’ he says with a trace of irritation . |
| 13 | I gave mum thirty five pound because after all you know , I think she needs it he says with the price of food and all and |
| 14 | But the usaf says with the end of the cold war it 's been decided to pull out all staff . |
| 15 | Many are putting their health at risk in their formative years , Dr Andrew Hill , a chartered psychologist at the Academic Unit of Psychiatry , Leeds University , says in a study of nearly 400 nine-year-olds . |
| 16 | The wording of 72 ( contrasting ‘ states of consciousness ’ with ‘ dispositions ’ ) reminds one of what Gilbert Ryle says in The Concept of Mind , and the wording of 101 ( ‘ We can not separate his ‘ thinking ’ from his activity' ) of what he says in his contribution to The Human Agent but Ryle and Wittgenstein , it seems to me , agree only on the negative point , that thinking is not an accompaniment of speaking and acting . |
| 17 | Andy is telling Kermit it will be all right , Dad 's here to take care of us , and Kermit says in the voice of doom , the voice of a gypsy fortune-teller , ‘ Do n't trust Dad . ’ |
| 18 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
| 19 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
| 20 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 21 | You know as an Adventist do you know what it says in the book of Revelation ? |
| 22 | Well it says on the back of the thing you take these off and use that , use them as that thing his hands . |
| 23 | Er Right he says on the subject of attachment of identity and language and why and why not language is maintained , he cites Harris and and the Yiddish and Na-dene speakers . |
| 24 | Well , it says on the bottom of the , your copy of the charge sheet , production of driving license you must produce it , failure to produce it will mean that it is automatically suspended and it also means you 've committed yet another offence by not having a driving licence here to produce Mr ! |
| 25 | Well it says on the bottom of er your copy of the charge sheet production of driving licence you must produce it . |
| 26 | I it says on the bottom of this Phil ! |
| 27 | Mr Pollard says without a review of court procedures and a cut in paperwork , it will be very hard to make policing as visible as the public demands . |
| 28 | So as it says at the bottom of page eight there 's a golden rule for presenting is use three themes . |
| 29 | it 's an old , old house but she says at the top of the house |
| 30 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |