Example sentences of "says [prep] the [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 | 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 |
| 8 | But the usaf says with the end of the cold war it 's been decided to pull out all staff . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You know as an Adventist do you know what it says in the book of Revelation ? |
| 15 | Well it says on the back of the thing you take these off and use that , use them as that thing his hands . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Well it says on the bottom of er your copy of the charge sheet production of driving licence you must produce it . |
| 19 | I it says on the bottom of this Phil ! |
| 20 | So as it says at the bottom of page eight there 's a golden rule for presenting is use three themes . |
| 21 | it 's an old , old house but she says at the top of the house |
| 22 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 23 | The assessment process , it says at the beginning of its report , |
| 24 | ‘ Cindy says at the start of the video ‘ watch it and then try it ’ , ’ says Tee Dobinson . |
| 25 | Lee says at the end of the tournament , which he only missed winning because his putting let him down , ‘ Great job , well done . |
| 26 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ But my loneliness is my own , ’ Hopkin says at the end of the play . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's the sort of thing one says at the end of lectures — especially now we have all those bed-sitter Marxists as students . |
| 29 | Now the fact is , if you read Totem and Taboo , whatever you think , and how ever preposterous the idea may seem , what Freud actually says at the end of that book is not that , what Freud says is , there is an in innate , inborn sense of guilt about murdering near relatives like fathers and committing incest . |
| 30 | Fujitsu Ltd has come out with a new multimedia multiplexer in its DMIX series , one of a series of multiplexers designed for its Network Solution 2000 network architecture : the new E-2570 DMIX has a capacity of 10 data channels and six speech voice channels , and comes between the large capacity E-2570 DMIX and the compact E-2300 series Compact MUX ; Fujitsu expects to sell 5,000 units over three years , starting in June , at a price of $73,000 ) ; the E-2500 series DMIX and E-2300 series Compact MUX were released in September last year and Fujitsu says by the end of last month , sales to 100 companies had been made . |