Example sentences of "can say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ . |
| 2 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 3 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 4 | In reaction to this , one can say that the very way in which the church leaders view the subject is itself revealing of significant mediations between religion , state , and national ideology in the institutions of schooling . |
| 5 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 6 | Is it not perhaps inevitable for all creatures with imagination , all creatures which can say no ? |
| 7 | Is that all you can say ? she said . |
| 8 | Like Madge : Is that all you can say ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well you can say you 're visiting relatives or something . |
| 10 | Well , I kinda knew you 'd say that , but had forgotten the unique thrill of the way only you can say things . |
| 11 | If the result of your test is positive , you can say goodbye to your competitive career . |
| 12 | I can say that because I now belong to them both . |
| 13 | What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) . |
| 14 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 15 | Anyone who can say so clearly just what Derrida is saying , or doing , immediately puts the reader in his debt . |
| 16 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 17 | It may be that there is literally nothing they can say about it in the terms they are accustomed to using . |
| 18 | All I can say to the objectors in both categories is that those who do not see a problem do not have a problem , and they can happily ignore what I have written . |
| 19 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 20 | When you hear the word shopping in future , your pulse will race and your red corpuscles will be off and away before you can say ‘ This Week 's Special Offer ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ What we can say , however , is that smacking and beating mothers do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . ’ |
| 22 | He can say that again . |
| 23 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 24 | ‘ In such a phase , where final decisions have not been taken , nobody can say anything is for sure , ’ Mr Saeger said . |
| 25 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 26 | ‘ I can say firmly and unambiguously ‘ no ’ , ' declared Leonid Abalkin , the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economic reforms , when questioned on the subject by the government newspaper Izvestia . |
| 27 | So I do n't see how you can say that that 's devaluation . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been involved in community projects and I can say I enjoy going into schools , but at the end of the day there will always need to be the regulated type of policing of crime and violence . |
| 29 | Following J. S. Coleman 's terminology we can say that ‘ the effect of political interest on awareness of opinion polls was 41 per cent ’ in the pre-Campaign Wave . |
| 30 | There must be quite a number of readers who have had Uxbridge Cottage Pie at some time — and I obviously can not tell how the 1991 version compared with earlier versions — but I can say that I enjoyed this particular dish and that the taste and texture were very good . |