Example sentences of "[det] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |
| 2 | A year head who originally came from the secondary modern school at the time of reorganisation had this to say on the status of the school : |
| 3 | Gypsy leaders who lobbied parliament today had this to say to the government … |
| 4 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 5 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 6 | Michael had this to say about the inaccessibility to the general public of recent contemporary music . |
| 7 | Dickens , writing in 1850 , has this to say about the district around Watney Street : |
| 8 | Sturt , with his unrivalled knowledge of Australian geography and zoology , had much to say on the subject , and his observations must have contributed greatly to Gould 's views . |
| 9 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 10 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 11 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 12 | The Bible does have quite a bit to say about Christians — all Christians — being witnesses for Jesus , BUT it does not have very much at all to say about the sort of ‘ Witnessing ’ being done by ‘ Damnation Derek ’ . |
| 13 | I erm possibly , have you got a lot more to say about the course ? |
| 14 | I will have much more to say about the biochemistry of these events in the context of my own experiments in the next chapter ; I do n't want to get into great detail here but instead would emphasize that Kandel explains the reflex and its habituation and sensitization by a series of reductions . |
| 15 | It 's just that other have had so much more to say about the work . |
| 16 | I simply stopped because I did n't have anything more to say at the time . |
| 17 | However , there is more to say on the matter of questioning . |
| 18 | As it happened , I had a word or two more to say on the topic of — as you put it yourself — the glories of nature . |
| 19 | I have less to say about the country south of the Mallaig railway . |
| 20 | Pareto does not consider politics or government as subjects separate from sociology , and he has little to say about the concept of power as such . |
| 21 | Robbins ( 1963 ) — comprehensive and thorough in many respects — had relatively little to say about the undergraduate curriculum , beyond some general statements about the aims of higher education , and recommendations about the balance of arts and science and single and combined honours courses . |