Example sentences of "[indef pn] to say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve . |
| 2 | She was mysterious about herself but had plenty to say on the subject of her boyfriends . |
| 3 | Eliot 's Bough was The Golden Bough which had plenty to say about the rebirth of gods accompanying vegetation . |
| 4 | Yet several of the judges are bothered about democratic accountability and may have something to say about the lack of it in the Community . |
| 5 | St Ives , while agreeing with Dotty that Freud might have something to say about the choice of subject , was rather taken with the gift . |
| 6 | Most listeners who had something to say about the last-named found them either boring or incomprehensible . |
| 7 | But other commentators have also had something to say about the use of quantification in linguistics . |
| 8 | Check your contract ; it may have something to say on the subject of absence . |
| 9 | Not every author who has something to say on the subject of post-war sexual morality is included in the following discussion of each of the five categories , but rather those who are considered to be most representative of each genre are discussed . |
| 10 | The notion of jealousy fires your imagination ; you feel you have something to say on the theme . |
| 11 | The specialist architectural press ignores this amorphous school of design , while even the Prince of Wales has nothing to say on the subject , reserving his spleen for imaginative buildings that he and so many of his future subjects profess to hate . |
| 12 | A detective told the court that after caution the pair replied : ‘ Nothing to say to the charge . ’ |
| 13 | The Government report Scotland 's Health : A Challenge to us All had nothing to say about the Government 's pivotal role in alleviating poverty and deprivation by increasing employment , providing adequate benefits and tackling homelessness , she added . |
| 14 | It had nothing to say about the need to reform the way the country was governed and its manifesto was a ‘ job lot of ideas ’ with little sense of direction . |
| 15 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 16 | At first sight , Penrose 's result applied only to stars ; it did n't have anything to say about the question of whether the entire universe had a big bang singularity in its past . |
| 17 | If you have anything to say about the Journal , or indeed about any aspect of the company , do write to us . |
| 18 | Then you take evidence from everyone who might have anything to say on the subject . |
| 19 | There are indications that the James-type account is the more popular among those few contemporary British philosophers who have anything to say on the subject . |
| 20 | to my left has anything to say on the subject . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't have anything to say to the nonsense our French friend has been uttering . |
| 22 | ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others . |