Example sentences of "say [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frame two , I say with tears of pride in my eyes , was a near duplicate , 51–14 , my opponent disgustedly resigning with blue , pink and black still on the table . |
| 2 | The store manager has no say in objectives of the organisation . |
| 3 | JULIE WHITE , clerk , Blackpool : ‘ Cutlery would sell really well , say in packs of two of knives , forks and spoons . ’ |
| 4 | The position , Chair , if I can just quickly through you , say in terms of this budget , we do make a provision for absences , because obviously we do get sickness absence . |
| 5 | " We say without fear of contradiction that people like Eva Burrows grace any country they serve in . |
| 6 | An opinion poll taken at the January officers ' meeting , published on Feb. 5 in Nezavisimaya gazeta , showed that some 71 per cent of the officers polled favoured restoring a unified state within the former Soviet Union 's borders , and that 79 per cent thought that the military should have the deciding say on issues of the armed forces ' future . |
| 7 | Ground floor , they say on account of your chest . |
| 8 | It says about scenes of crime officers cos most burglaries happen er in the early afternoon when when mum 's gone out to pick up the kids before she comes home to cook the tea |
| 9 | What the hon. Gentleman says about members of the Territorial Army being refused their bounty is news to me , so I should be grateful if he would write to me . |
| 10 | This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech . |
| 11 | As much might be said for members of her cabinet . |
| 12 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 13 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |
| 14 | The other aspect I was gon na suggest is I mean , I 've said of stuff of the environment , Terry 's not if we take topics and we say right there 's a I mean , I 've got these boxes I will donate you know , like letter , you know lo lo boxes which can be labelled and all the information on environment goes in there so that perhaps , we made up , you know plastic , hard plastic . |
| 15 | Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) . |
| 16 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 17 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 18 | Visitors should be informed of this important factor — be careful of what is said within earshot of the person . |
| 19 | It is , however , worth stressing what Jessop has said in support of his own neo-Marxist approach to the analysis of power and the state , because it emphasises both the strengths and weaknesses of the Marxist school of writings : ‘ an adequate theoretical analysis of the state [ and power ] must consider not only economic determinations but also those rooted in the distinctive organisation of the state as well as in the social division of labour between officialdom and people ’ . |
| 20 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 21 | Moore himself said later that there was little to be said in favour of this account . |
| 22 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 23 | In conclusion , my Lords , it seems to me that , unless the procedure adopted by the moving party is ill suited to dispose of the question at issue , there is much to be said in favour of the proposition that a court having jurisdiction ought to let a case be heard rather than entertain a debate concerning the form of the proceedings . |
| 24 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 25 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 26 | Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality . |
| 27 | Had the matter been res integra , there is much to be said in favour of Judge Davies QC 's reasoning . |
| 28 | It has been said in defence of such publications that those who allow themselves to be depicted indecently are thereby ‘ waiving their own privacy rather than impeding or intruding upon that of others ’ . |
| 29 | Whereas a person involved in the American Mafia could say , quite reasonably , ‘ what 's all the fuss about , we only kill each other ’ , the same could not be said in defence of some corporate crimes . |
| 30 | She was careful what was said in front of boys , especially William . |