Example sentences of "to say what it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 2 | ‘ La Loge ’ had been up very recently , and with nothing sold lately at anything like $12 million , it is hard to say what it is now worth . |
| 3 | My first truism is the one Aristotle used to say what it is for a statement to be true or false : ‘ To say of what is , that it is not , or of what is not , that it is , is false ; while to say of what is , that it is , or of what is not , that it is not , is true . ’ |
| 4 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 5 | supposed to find out , supposed to say what it is first |
| 6 | Besides attempting to say what it was about a sensation which served as a sign of the location of whatever had given rise to it , adherents of the local sign theory had also to say in what way the reference to a part of the body was made — whether in the form of visual imagery , or of a judgement , or of something else . |
| 7 | In this case , the aim is not to collect mundane detail for its own sake — to say what it was like to be a Young Conservative at the time of the fieldwork in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 9 | The Rosyth spokesman declined to say what it was worth . |