Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example of what is meant by ‘ assignment ’ , we might say that a botanist who discovers an unusual plant will try to assign it to a known species ; if this is found impossible , it will be decided that a new species has been discovered , and that future examples of this plant will be assigned to this new species . |
| 2 | People might say that a woman is depriving a baby of the chance of life which leads on to the argument of ‘ when is a foetus human ? ’ etc … |
| 3 | Following the lines laid down there , and using Bernstein 's work on class and language codes , we could say that a language of explicit meaning ( broadly speaking , the middle-class code ) is a language in which what is expressed is ‘ a function of the psychological qualities of the person ’ . |
| 4 | One could say that a bank manager living alone will receive the same discount as a dustman . |
| 5 | We could say that a discourse participant is ‘ speaking topically ’ when he makes his contribution fit closely to the most recent elements incorporated in the topic framework . |
| 6 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
| 7 | Today , cynics would say that a building contract never has the chance of being put away as disputes start from the moment it comes into operation . |
| 8 | Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority . |
| 9 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 10 | I would say that a band like Soundgarden probably attracts more of a metal crowd . |
| 11 | If this be correct , then one would say that a refusal by the House of Lords to exercise any mandatory Gallagher jurisdiction to dispose of B 's undetermined arguments would have denied him his right to a judgment and would have been in violation of the terms of Article 6 . |
| 12 | This is the largest distance d ( y , z ) between any two points in C. We shall say that a point x is nearly central in C if for every point z in C , the distance d ( x , z ) is less than two thirds of C's diameter . |
| 13 | We will say that a tableau is optimal over a degenerate interval , if θ = θ . |
| 14 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 15 | We will say that a program is in x — IF/ALT form if it has one of the following forms . |
| 16 | The articles or the agreement may say that a reference to the auditors has to take place in every instance ; in other cases a reference is necessary only if there is a dispute . |
| 17 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 18 | Therefore , one can say that a Rottweiler who achieves international championship status in the Nordic countries has to be a Rottweiler of the very highest standard . |
| 19 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 20 | If we call the complex of scientific theories generally accepted and well established at some stage in the history of science the background knowledge of the time , then we can say that a conjecture will be bold if its claims are unlikely in the light of the background knowledge of the time . |
| 21 | However , in general , one can say that a hearer selects that combination of lexical readings which leads to the most normal possible utterance-in-context . |
| 22 | We can of course continue to talk in jurisdictional terminology ; we can say that a tribunal 's jurisdiction is conditional on it making no errors of law . |
| 23 | By placing paragraphs on the links , one can say that a paragraph is about a certain relation between two nodes — not just about a node . |
| 24 | But , for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift . |