Example sentences of "can say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who can say whether the ambitious executive , brimming with ideas today , will be a suitable candidate for management tomorrow — or likely to remain just a great ideas person ? ’ |
| 2 | The idea of what has been called data privacy , the claim of the individual to control information about himself , is not confined to so-called sensitive data or information of a particularly recherché kind — it can apply to any piece of data about an identifiable individual , who is the only one who can say whether or not , in the particular context , he or she regards the data as sensitive . |
| 3 | If their activities are unsuccessful , only another professional can say whether this was due to incompetence or to the inevitable workings of nature or society by which even the most competent practitioner would have been stymied . |
| 4 | Surely only he can say whether I 'm out or not . ’ |
| 5 | We should be able to tell you something of the nature of the fastenings used but I doubt if we can say whether a body was involved . |
| 6 | Who can say whether the spirit of nature does possess a beauty or an importance greater than the purely physical or rather mechanical objects ? |
| 7 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 8 | This need not be your tutor ; even someone who knows nothing about the subject can say whether you are making sense . |
| 9 | If one observes the horizontal projection of the motion for just one or two periods then one sees a quite well-defined orbit ; one can say whether the bob is moving on a circular , elliptical or linear path , how big this is , and how , for an ellipse or line , it is oriented . |
| 10 | It relates to the average man or woman and no one can say whether an individual plaintiff is that average man or woman . |
| 11 | Yet nobody can say whether an individual plaintiff is an average man or that he will live for the expectation of life of an average man of his age . |
| 12 | I care for Emma more than I can say but I also care for you and I 'm really sorry if you were hurt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I can say that because I now belong to them both . |
| 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 | So I do n't see how you can say that that 's devaluation . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's when at the end of your career you can say that you have benefitted some part of society , if not all of society , that you can say you have done well . |
| 21 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 22 | We can say that the relationship between marriage system and terminology is itself highly variable and so too is the way they interact on each other . |
| 23 | ‘ I can say that the police are definitely trying to stamp out racism . |
| 24 | Mr Watkins can say that he sympathises with green views on the need for conservation but has been overruled by the troika that presides over George Bush 's domestic policy : John Sununu , the chief of staff , Richard Darman , the budget director , and Michael Boskin , the chief economic adviser . |
| 25 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 26 | He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man 's own highest interest . |
| 27 | ‘ You can say that again , ’ said Gloria . |
| 28 | Looking at the sweep of the whole narrative from Genesis 1 outwards , we can say that God has made laughter for himself also , and for the whole world . |
| 29 | ‘ You can say that again , ’ came a voice from the crowd . |
| 30 | No one can say that the scientists showed no conscience at that moment . |