Example sentences of "we [vb mod] say [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps , therefore , we should say that public law ought to govern the exercise of public functions whether by governmental or non-governmental bodies .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria .
5 To put it in more formal philosophical language , we can say that academic freedom is an achievement concept .
6 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 .
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