Example sentences of "[pron] can say that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I can say that the police are definitely trying to stamp out racism . |
| 3 | Looking at it selfishly , I can say that the happiness of the family now depends on you , for it is in you that the family is renewed and starts again . |
| 4 | I think I 'd like to start by making a few general points , er and then er it will be a matter for for others to be somewhat more specific , I I I think I can say that the issue of a new settlement of a new settlement in Greater York is is a fairly unique situation , because we have agreement between the development industry and the County Council , and that 's something of a rarity , but also we have mild support from the Department of the Environment , and as Mr Davis has already said , that is backed by public support . |
| 5 | Whether you comply with their claims to being the sole centre of musical importance or not , nobody can say that The Smiths have n't , so far , fulfilled their promise . |
| 6 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 7 | But the best you can say that the jury there was some information that be in the master bedroom you do n't know where . |
| 8 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For only in this way can we take up the saying ‘ pray without ceasing ’ as being possible , if we can say that the whole life of the saint is one mighty , integrated prayer . |
| 11 | From the wide experience , we can say that the committees of the Engineering Board are generally more tolerant of new ideas . |
| 12 | As a preliminary statement we can say that the equation : is at best only ever achieved as a momentary or fleeting condition . |
| 13 | More precisely , we can say that the manufacturer wishes to maximise the minimum of revenue and goal : |
| 14 | On this basis we can say that the vast majority of families with an unskilled manual worker as sole earner were at best only marginally above that line . |
| 15 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 16 | Although we ca n't predict the future in detail , we can say that the winds of change are blowing ever more strongly . |
| 17 | The concept of discretion is a complex one , but for our purposes we can say that the essence of a discretion is choice . |
| 18 | If it is not , then we can say that the upper class enjoys a high degree of social closure relative to classes below . |
| 19 | We can say that the instructor 's braking caused it , and it is natural to say that it was a cause of the stopping . |
| 20 | In this sense we can say that the structuring principle of all discourse is dialogue ; but we will need to examine the relationship between the word order and this dialogue more thoroughly . |
| 21 | We can say that the purpose of knowing is truth ( however conceived ) and that the purpose of doing is effectiveness ( Horner 1985 ) . |
| 22 | However , setting aside such issues , we can say that the very stances of knowing , doing and being are inconceivable — literally — without the symbol systems of language and mathematics . |
| 23 | Therefore , we can say that the speaker 's ‘ knowledge ’ includes the knowledge that /k/ is palatalized in the dialect . |
| 24 | Schubert ( 1960 , p. 223 ) states that : This view is shared by Downs ( 1962 , p. 1 ) when he states : In more general terms ( see Held , 1970 ) we can say that the term ‘ public interest ’ is used to express approval or communication of policies adopted or proposed by the government . |
| 25 | Leaving aside the problems of precise definition of revenues and costs , we can say that the profit accruing to an enterprise equals revenue minus costs . |
| 26 | In essence we can say that the sentenced prison population is a function of the number of people received into prison and the average length of sentence that they actually serve ( sometimes known as effective sentence length : Fitzmaurice and Pease , 1992 : 575 ) . |
| 27 | If we follow Popper and refer to those sets of observation statements that would serve to falsify a law or theory as potential falsifiers of that law or theory , then we can say that the potential falsifiers of ( a ) form a class that is a subclass of the potential falsifiers of ( b ) . |
| 28 | We can say that the 1st turn plus the 2nd turn adds up to 180° . |
| 29 | Accordingly , we can say that the academic community stands in a direct relationship to research but in an indirect relationship to higher education . |
| 30 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |