Example sentences of "would be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , there will be guidelines and you 're in the know anyway so you 'd be telling at your curriculum area meetings , you 'd be saying |
| 2 | I never thought I 'd be saying this but I 'm now the proud owner of my very first home . |
| 3 | ‘ At the moment , there 's insufficient evidence to arrest anyone , ’ said Harris quietly , ‘ and if I thought you were keen on any of the other men in this case , I 'd be saying the same thing about them . ’ |
| 4 | We 'd be saying things like ‘ you need three extra staff … ’ . |
| 5 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |
| 6 | Oh they 'd be they 'd be saying , Boy she 's history . |
| 7 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 8 | I 'd be saying that fucking it ! , she does n't say that she 's sort of been he 's still |
| 9 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 10 | The natural reaction to that situation would be to say : ‘ Well , let's take the cause which is admitted to be in operation , and stop it , and then see if things are all right afterwards . |
| 11 | One way of putting this would be to say that with the deconstruction of these intervening cultural developments , we can see the early modern clearly once again . |
| 12 | But , indeed , the whole general effect is to divorce Resident Tutors from the WEA ; the Resident Tutor would be excluded from urban areas , while on the other hand the WEA would be to say the least of it extremely circumscribed in rural areas . |
| 13 | ‘ Now the quickest way to diminish acid rain would be to say , ‘ Right , we will not use any British coal , we will use coal from overseas which has no sulphur . ’ |
| 14 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 15 | To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat . |
| 16 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 17 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 18 | The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent . |
| 19 | A better way of being assertive and getting what you want would be to say : |
| 20 | One would be to say that the predicating of names like ‘ white ’ does not involve classification ( taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name ) . |
| 21 | Another would be to say that whereas some classes ( for example , the class ‘ metal ’ ) are grounded on resemblance in some respect , others ( for example , the class ‘ sensation of white ’ ) are not grounded on resemblance at all . |
| 22 | Another way of putting this would be to say that the perspectival appearance of an object at a point of view is a function of the object 's real figure , its inclination relative to the point of view , and its distance from the point of view , and is a function of nothing else . |
| 23 | It makes no more sense to say that the perspectival appearance is true ( or false ) of the object than it would be to say that the size of the angle of a triangle is true ( or false ) of the other two angles , which determine its size . |
| 24 | One way of expressing this point would be to say that my body as it is for me is sensitive , whereas my body in the midst of the world is sensible ( meaning , to be sensed or perceived ) . |
| 25 | A simpler way of describing its position would be to say that it is part of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian regions . |
| 26 | The ultimate arrogance would be to say I do n't care . |
| 27 | Another approach would be to say that it is I , not some part of me called ‘ reason ’ , which sees that this is how the system of my impulses should be organized . |
| 28 | Another would be to say he attempted to theorize the very position that Sartre had fought to get out of . |
| 29 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 30 | The rational approach would be to say candidly that the question , being legislative , must be settled with the help of the policy implicit in the Act , or by reference to convenience or social requirements or generally accepted principles of fairness . |