Example sentences of "to say [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time . |
| 2 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 3 | This is to say nothing of the varied forms and objects of laughter that there may be : spontaneous hilarity ; dark chuckles over black humour ; knowing , ironic laughter ; the nervous giggles of imperfect comprehension . |
| 4 | A gain of only 39 seats is a sign that , even in favourable circumstances , the Labour Party can not persuade large parts of the electorate that the interests of the homeless , the frail , the old , the sick and the unemployed ( to say nothing of the healthy , the employed and the prosperous ) would be safer in its hands . |
| 5 | We were keenly aware that the local and national authorities , to say nothing of the international archaeological community , would have been horrified by such a spectacle . |
| 6 | There are stars galore in the operatic firmament , with , alongside to say nothing of the many famous names featured in the historical anthologies . |
| 7 | Studies by Atkinson and Kincaid in Britain , Harrington in the USA , and official government studies in both countries , reveal a persistent and significant section of the population living in poverty-stricken circumstances at any one time , to say nothing of the many others , who , at certain crucial periods of their life ( e.g. the old , families with young children ) , may temporarily lapse into poverty . |
| 8 | As for the Seventh and Eighth Books ( 1619 and 1638 ) , to say nothing of the Ninth , compiled eight years after the composer 's death , they contain quasi-operatic ballets and experiments ( 11 ballo dell' Ingrate , Tirsi e Clori , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ) , declamatory or melodic solos or duets over repeated or varied basses , with or without string ritornelli , elaborate vocal and instrumental concerti , and the simplest solo canzonette . |
| 9 | To put it mildly , the phrase we seek would be a long time coming , to say nothing of the complete works of Shakespeare . |
| 10 | That has brought the Gwili Railway alone six members to date , to say nothing of the other railway societies I have joined . |
| 11 | Morley , Weelkes , and Wilbye were the outstanding figures of the English madrigal school , but some fine things were also written by Bateson , Benet , Michael East , Kirbye , Francis Pilkington , Ward , and others — to say nothing of the Catholic exile , Peter Philips , who set Italian verse . |
| 12 | Much civility , much comfort ( comfort in France ! ) made every arrangement pleasurable ; and all this without more vociferation or commotion than prevails at Paddington ; to say nothing of the second-class carriage being nearly equal to our first . |
| 13 | Four minutes to stand before 7,000 of her peers , to say nothing of the thousands of invalids , shift-workers and bored housewives who might well be tuned in to BBC2 . |
| 14 | That might be the motto of the Scottish Health Education Group who not only advertise on television but sponsor a radio soap opera , to say nothing of the Scottish football team . |
| 15 | The proposals that emerged were different for London , the rest of England , Wales and Scotland : to say nothing of the difficult position which developed in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | The unusual , to say nothing of the bizarre , seems always to lurk close by the main door of Maine Road . |
| 17 | The unusual , to say nothing of the bizarre , seems always to lurk close by the main door of Maine Road . |
| 18 | To say nothing of the cut-price Caribbean cruise , the satellite-TV dish and the fully computerised Cosworth car at a cool £25,000 from the newly opened Ford dealers . |
| 19 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |
| 20 | A yet greater Netherlander , Lassus — much more versatile than de Monte in his church music alone , to say nothing of the secular field , and a much stronger and more complex creative personality — served the dukes of Bavaria from 1556 till his death in 1594 . |
| 21 | Whereas Palestrina is almost negligible as a composer of secular music , Lassus was equally at home in the Italian madrigal and the more popular and homophonic villanella ( successor of the frottola ) , the French chanson and German song , to say nothing of the secular Latin motet . |
| 22 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 23 | The legend of Noah 's ark once purported to say something about the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 24 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 25 | However before examining it I want to say something about the general response of community educators to the problems facing the working-class in N. Ireland . |
| 26 | It enables the scientist to say something about the internal experiences of others without the tedium of having to ask the subjects themselves . |
| 27 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 28 | Before justifying our claim , however , we wish to say something about the main criticisms levelled at Realism . |
| 29 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 30 | I must not forget to say something to the whole school about her . ’ |