Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] say [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that something at least must be said about alternative types of ambiguity , although a detailed treatment would be well beyond the scope of this book . |
| 2 | It might be say at equal opportunities which we 've worked at a very great deal over the last year . |
| 3 | But if you do live in a village you will almost certainly know your vicar , and the same could be said of inner-city communities . |
| 4 | Much the same could be said of academic journals , for example , in which the development of a particular format contributes to the authority of any one article . |
| 5 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 6 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 7 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 8 | What we mainly have in answer so far , about causes and causal circumstances , is that they stand in seven connections — the last three of which are also fundamental to what will be said of nomic correlates . |
| 9 | A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals . |
| 10 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 11 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 12 | The same can be said about Constant Lambert 's arrangement of Auber 's music for Ashton 's Les Rendezvous and Meyerbeer 's for Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 13 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 14 | The same can be said of individual schools . |
| 15 | Leaving aside several other good attempts to explain the difference between causes and causal circumstances and their effects , and also what can be said of great obstacles in the way of these attempts ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 7 , 1979 ; Ayer , 1984a ; Sanford , 1976 , 1985 ; Papineau , 1985b ; Honderich , 1986 ) , let us return to and concentrate on our ordinary convictions about the difference . |
| 16 | Many writers have expressed the view that intonation is used to convey our feelings and attitudes ; for example , the same sentence can be said in different ways , which might be labelled ‘ angry ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ grateful ’ , ‘ bored ’ , and so on . |