Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say that the standard of high jumping is very good this year . |
| 2 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 3 | In order to restore those convictions , the Crown must say that the Act of 1968 has altered the law in such a way ( among others ) that anyone who , by a false representation such as a worthless cheque , induces an owner to sell property is thereby guilty of stealing . |
| 4 | If the expert 's identity is not predetermined by , for instance , being the company 's auditors , the expert clause should say that the expert is to be appointed by agreement of the parties . |
| 5 | Lili frowned , and I wondered what would happen if I should say that the wedding was cancelled . |
| 6 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 7 | Being a bit hard up for anything new to tell you in this section I 'll say that the weight of the guitar is medium/light and , true to form , it balances perfectly whether you choose to sit or stand while playing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | And you might say that the word has not been mounted on there . |
| 11 | Thus we might say that the sceptic implicitly claims to know his conclusion that knowledge is impossible , or that he claims that his premises justify his belief that justified belief is impossible . |
| 12 | To revert to my opening discussion for a moment , one might say that the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superego represented above all in the taboos on incest and aggression against the father has become severely exacerbated and that , if Freud felt that in his day the balance was too far on the side of society and the superego , today it has swung too far in the direction of the individual and the id ; for it is clear that a balance between these two opposing fundamental forces is the essence of human existence . |
| 13 | One might say that the architect 's or engineer 's conception of a model replaced what had hitherto been the accountant 's model — C6H6 , the mere counting of atoms — in the chemical formula . |
| 14 | A doctor might say that the person 's ‘ natural resistance ’ is lowered by the injury . |
| 15 | We might say that the despair of existentialism is simply the logic of atheism , but this is true only in so far as atheism itself is the logic of ungrateful Protestantism . |
| 16 | We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) . |
| 17 | From a rhetorical perspective one might say that the monarchy is not defended in terms of its own monarchical common-places , but in terms of other common-places . |
| 18 | You might say that the thought uppermost in my mind was this : Joe Bodenland , you have escaped the twenty-first century ! |
| 19 | We might say that the decision in O'Reilly established an ‘ exclusivity principle ’ applying to some judicial review applications for declarations and injunctions . |
| 20 | Now going back to administration , I 'd wade through , and it might say that the policy 's being delivered , so I 've got to set up a policy delivery call . |
| 21 | We might say that the corporation was liable , meaning only to summarize in a convenient way the responsibilities we ascribed to each of the shareholders . |
| 22 | A cruel analysis of the last 30 years in education might say that the succession of Schools Council , then the Schools Curriculum Development Committee and then the NCC neatly summarises the way that education has been perceived over this period . |
| 23 | ‘ Poetry begins , I dare say , with a savage beating a drum in a jungle , and it retains that essential of percussion and rhythm ; hyperbolically one might say that the poet is older than other human beings … |
| 24 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 25 | Tolkien tried the experiment in Treebeard 's farewell , and maybe he failed ; though one might say that the image behind the phrase works well for Fangorn , whose sense of ultimate loss naturally centres on felled trees and barren ground . |
| 26 | In fact , one might say that the article , with its defence of National Front thinking and its attack on liberalism , is reinforcing the value that one should be unprejudiced , for both the attack and the defence are based , in essence , upon deciding who should be called ‘ prejudiced ’ . |
| 27 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | One could say that a bank manager living alone will receive the same discount as a dustman . |
| 30 | 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 . |