Example sentences of "may say " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may say that it is feeble in colour and monotonous in tone — it may be so , but it touches the heart , it arrests the attention ; and what is the use of all your correct drawing and pure tints , and skill in light and shade , if your subject leaves me cold and unaffected . |
| 2 | ‘ If I may say so your sister was particularly emphatic on the point . ’ |
| 3 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 4 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 5 | And so one may say , in more directly Piagetian terms , that the child 's thinking fails , by our lights , in so far as one thought is not balanced ( ‘ in equilibrium with ’ in Piaget 's jargon ) by another . |
| 6 | But surely , you may say , consciousness does consist of determinate mental episodes . |
| 7 | The difference between the two poets corresponds ( not quite exactly , because the nature and history of French verse differs so greatly from English ) to the distinction that the French make between vers libre and vers libéré ; between , we may say , free verse and freed verse . |
| 8 | From the outside people may say she has married into such and such a descent group but this does not mean that she is also not at the same time the wife of a particular man . |
| 9 | Here , in Britain , the attitude of women is quite different ; they may say why should another woman look after my baby or even touch my baby . |
| 10 | One may say : ‘ I pray best when the Rosary Beads are slipping through my fingers . ’ |
| 11 | Sitting with Lords Justices Gibson and McCowan , he said : ‘ If he has no intention of disclosing his source , whatever the House of Lords , which is the ultimate court of justice in this country , may say , then we see absolutely no reason why we should assist him . ’ |
| 12 | Just thought I 'd mention it — the auditors may say something like it . ’ |
| 13 | That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out . |
| 14 | An equality of poverty , westerners may say . |
| 15 | Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty . |
| 16 | Whatever justice may say , the whoopee in the building societies ' camp was soon cut short . |
| 17 | He is too quick , moreover , in his offhand dismissal of the thought that the girl was ‘ abnormal ’ : ‘ You may say whatever you want ; still it is enough to make your universal declaration false if one single case contradicts you . ’ |
| 18 | So , despite his presentation of sceptical arguments against knowledge of the nature of things , Gassendi does , nevertheless , hint that ‘ it may well be that the basis for knowledge does exist ’ ; even though this will be ‘ a knowledge of experience and , I may say , of appearances ’ . |
| 19 | Broadly speaking , one may say that every child is legitimate which is born during the continuance of a marriage or within due time afterwards . |
| 20 | So again , if A was tenant in tail , and B tenant in fee simple in reversion , the failure of A's issue at his death , or at any later time , would vest the fee simple in possession in whatever person then represented B. In such cases ownership , we may say , was cut up into lengths called estates . |
| 21 | Generally speaking , one may say that apart from dispositions by will , a deed , i.e. a sealed writing , is necessary , though leases in possession for not more than three years at the best rent obtainable without taking a premium may still be made without a deed or even by word of mouth . |
| 22 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 23 | Even though we may say , ‘ Make yourself at home ’ , we might be a little taken aback if they took us at our word and kicked off their shoes , lounged around on the settee , helped themselves to our coffee , tea , larder and even our wine ! |
| 24 | Now , you 're a plants-woman of no small renown , if I may say so , your ladyship . |
| 25 | ‘ You may say that as often as you like . ’ |
| 26 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 27 | In conclusion , one may say that in the ritual life of the traditional Hindu woman one can see the ambivalence of the traditional attitude of Hindu society towards its women and their sexuality . |
| 28 | ‘ It was exciting ! ’ we may say in retrospect . |
| 29 | One horse may say , ‘ I like you ’ , by mouthing his owner 's hand with his lips and tongue ; another may put his head on his owner 's shoulder ; or a third may come up to his owner and make some other form of body contact . |
| 30 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |