Example sentences of "as we [vb mod] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the actors ‘ played ’ ; they did not act or perform ; they did not , as we would say today , ‘ stage ’ a performance of the Passion ; but rather , they played the game of the Passion . |
| 2 | Seen on a pack of sooks , or socks , as we would say . |
| 3 | But the ground of the complaint would not be that the giraffe 's right to self determination was being thwarted , as we would say of a human being in a cage , but the general distaste at the conviction that the animal must be suffering severe discomfort . |
| 4 | Personal idiosyncracies are not relevant here : what really matter are those sentiments and axiomatic patterns of thought and action which come , as we would say ‘ naturally ’ , as a result of having been brought up or ‘ socialized ’ in a particular society and culture . |
| 5 | I mean there 's a whole range of exclamations that , bless me , or bless me as we would say . |
| 6 | And this multiplicity is not something fixed , given once for all ; but new types of language , new language-games , as we may say , come into existence and others become obsolete and get forgotten … |
| 7 | When it is said ( as we shall say ) that the sentence That 's a dog entails the sentence That 's an animal , what is meant is that in any conceivable situation in which That 's a dog can ( with appropriate reference ) express a true proposition , there exists a corresponding proposition ( i.e. with no change in the referents of referring expressions ) expressible by That 's an animal , whose truth is a necessary consequence of the truth of the first proposition . |
| 8 | A branching hierarchy requires a relation of dominance with a very particular property , namely , that of being , as we shall say , differentiable . |
| 9 | On 5 September 1818 , James Hamilton , grocer extraordinaire and showman by nature gave the first public commercial showing of the new ‘ light-brackets ’ by installing ‘ sex jetties ’ , or six of the ‘ wee lights ‘ , as we might say today . |
| 10 | It is obviously difficult for a parent to help a child through a developmental hurdle which he has not properly encompassed himself , but parents and children can grow up together , or , as we might say , children can bring up their parents . |
| 11 | This had given him his name , Thlayli , which means , literally , " Furhead " , or as we might say , " Bigwig " . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said : ‘ We can confirm the centre is under offer , but that 's as much as we can say at this stage . ’ |