Example sentences of "say [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 2 | Say nothing of the hound to Sir Henry . |
| 3 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 4 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 5 | Well I , I might just block it off get another piece of wood and put it in there and just nail that fucking lot up and block off completely , otherwise Nick 's , if Nicholas is playing in the garden he 'll be out of there like a shot , so you 're gon na get one post there , say one in the middle and one at the end . |
| 6 | Now , although the polls have only just closed , I think that , on the basis of a sample of the replies to our invitations , we can make a projection about the number of people coming to this party and also say something about the ‘ social mix ’ . |
| 7 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 8 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |
| 9 | Say something about the death , about Hilary 's death . |
| 10 | Do you have any indication of its source , and say something about the background of people . |
| 11 | That is um in Burstow 's clinical practice she reckons that um sometimes people say something along the lines of well well um perhaps it was my fault , I was flirting with him , and things like that it and these are people who maybe have been about five or six when the abuse has happened and so y'know do five or six year olds flirt ? |
| 12 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 13 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 14 | And if you want to try to understand say something like the er Iran Contra scandal then part of the roots of that scandal lie in the American constitution in the way that there is , th that the president is controlled by other aspects of the constitution . |
| 15 | A hearing may be adjourned if either you or the Council say anything to the Committee , or produce something in writing which the other did not know about beforehand , and it is so important that you or the Council want time to think about it before proceeding . |
| 16 | say anything in the conversation well it 's |
| 17 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 18 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 19 | Having said nothing about the er the charity erm erm the meeting on erm the meetings four times a year and we 're quite but there are some available for erm people erm and particularly to erm we agreed a list of people who wished to give them Christmas gifts , cash but I 'm sure they would help and and erm the names of people who who might need help er are always welcome so if I could just erm erm ask people to let me know if they know of anyone financial help . |
| 20 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 21 | Doherty says everyone in the community should have a hand in nominating people and clubs for such awards — local tourism organisations , hotels and guest houses and others who benefit from angling tourism . |
| 22 | He says everyone in the county will have to feed syrup . |
| 23 | This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing . |
| 24 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 25 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 26 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 27 | In truth , the fact that a position of power might be attained as a result of ‘ private ’ contracting in itself says nothing about the legitimacy of the possession of that power , and hence even if the company could be explained in purely contractual terms this would , without more , have little impact on the question of the propriety of state intervention . |
| 28 | It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers . |
| 29 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 30 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |