Example sentences of "we say " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We say someone has AIDS when the virus has weakened the body so much that certain new illnesses are developing . |
| 2 | A note about effectiveness rates : where we say , for example , that a method is 98% effective — this means that each year , out of every 100 women using the method , 2 will become pregnant . |
| 3 | So the meaning of a sign consists in the bare fact that it stands in an external causal relation to that which we say it signifies . |
| 4 | At home we say : ‘ Would you like a beer ? ’ or ‘ do you fancy a drink ? ’ |
| 5 | Porfiry is , as we say , very human . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 7 | Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’ |
| 8 | We say : Do n't reform apartheid . |
| 9 | We say we are thirsty when we mean that we fancy a glass of wine , a pint of beer , a gin and tonic or a shot of whisky — the pleasure of naming our poison — at the end of a busy day or tiresome week . |
| 10 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 11 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 12 | ‘ Exactly who we say we are , ’ said the man , looking surprised . |
| 13 | We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’ |
| 14 | He eats mechanically , because we say he must . |
| 15 | From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length . |
| 16 | Take note , when we say ‘ pop ’ it 's to the exclusion of such rock-minded types who happen to occupy prominent positions in the pop charts . |
| 17 | The property of being whiter is an obvious example , for one thing is compared with another when we say it is whiter than the other . |
| 18 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 19 | Good going , we say . |
| 20 | Denice says nobody ever asks her out , and we say we find this hard to believe . |
| 21 | We say we were thinking more along the lines of Keifer or Julia . |
| 22 | In technical terms we say that Socinus rejected the ‘ forensic ’ idea of salvation . |
| 23 | That 's why we say ‘ sorry ’ so often . |
| 24 | ‘ We say you 're Philip Doyle . |
| 25 | As we say our goodbyes she explains , ‘ They know me here . ’ |
| 26 | The reason the Royal Show is international is not because we say it is ; it is because the international visitors choose to visit the Royal Show and that is what makes it the most international agricultural show in the world . |
| 27 | We say these things , we accuse others of madness so lightly . |
| 28 | In England we say : ‘ What shall we do ? ’ and then : ‘ I wonder if it will achieve anything ? ’ |
| 29 | In the UK we say : ‘ How much money have we got ? |
| 30 | Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed . |