Example sentences of "can say [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But England manager Graham Taylor countered : ‘ I ca n't see how he can say such things without having an intimate knowledge of our game . |
| 2 | We have of course made it clear that those techs who were piloting er the out of school childcare initiative er will continue er to be funded er along with all other techs from ninety four , five and although of course I can not preempt the tech 's judgement and take a view on that particular scheme , er I can say that funding will continue for techs for that purpose . |
| 3 | To use the ‘ negotiation ’ metaphor , we can say that speaker M offers elements in her personal topic ( in her second contribution ) as possible elements to be included in the conversational business , but speaker L does not take up the offer . |
| 4 | but I ca n't understand how they can say that asthma is in , really in the same strain because that 's more like a breathing |
| 5 | Do I hear someone comment — ‘ you can say that again' ! ’ |
| 6 | Right , okay , so , in ge in general , we can say that world trade has risen over time due to essentially , well , is that , is there anything else that ? |
| 7 | And before you can say another word — let me repeat , if you choose to stay with me , you go where I go . ’ |
| 8 | Sovereignty is the , we 'll turn to it later , we 'll look at sovereignty again , but linked to sovereignty is the idea that you can make legislation , you can pass laws and then you can say these laws are going to be carried out , implemented by courts followed by sanctions though very little law is related to foreign policy because the British government or the Russian government or the United States government ca n't make laws which apply worldwide or outside its own area of claimed sovereignty so there is a difference of the environment in which foreign policy takes place . |
| 9 | I just do n't have many people I can say these things to . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't care who they are , no one can say these dogs are ugly . |
| 11 | Without democracy we would n't be able to say who should rule , with democracy we can we can say these people because we voted for them and that 's it , we ca n't say these people interests we ca n't say that these people act in common good although if they do very badly we 'll try and recall them , all we can say is they 're there we need , what we need is authority structures , we need the structures more than the people occupying the roles , someone 's got to occupy the roles and this is the only way we 've got of appointing them . |
| 12 | Thus I can say this morning either during the morning or the afternoon , and refer to the same span ; whereas in Chinantec , I must use a different word for referring to the morning in the morning ( i.e. when the span includes CT ) from the one I use to refer to the morning in the afternoon ( i.e. when the span referred to excludes CT , but is within the same larger diurnal span as CT — Fillmore , 1975 : 47 ) . |