Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] say [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my main concern this evening is with aspects of criminal contempt , I should say that civil contempt is essentially concerned with providing a long-stop to secure the enforcement of such court orders as injunctions . |
| 2 | It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped . |
| 3 | You can say that optical fibre is able to carry only one TV channel whereas a coaxial cable can carry up to 30 . |
| 4 | Perhaps , therefore , we should say that public law ought to govern the exercise of public functions whether by governmental or non-governmental bodies . |
| 5 | To distinguish between the function of marked theme and that of marked rheme , we could say that marked theme gives prominence to an element as linking information , whereas marked rheme gives prominence to an element as the core of the message . |
| 6 | If all firms behave in a similar way to this , then we can say that aggregate investment in the economy will depend on changes in aggregate demand — both of these have to be measured in value terms and since the value of aggregate demand in equilibrium is the same as national income , we have which is the expression we started with . |
| 7 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 8 | To put it in more formal philosophical language , we can say that academic freedom is an achievement concept . |
| 9 | We can still retain the conceptual distinction ; we can say that academic autonomy is descriptive of the relationship between the institution and the state , while academic freedom characterizes the institutionalized accountability of the individual academic . |