Example sentences of "it be afternoon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | To see what lies behind it , ask , ‘ What is the explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ ? ’ |
| 3 | Knowing that this is the explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see how we might use the term ‘ afternoon ’ on another planet , such as Mars . |
| 4 | Knowing the fact-presupposing explanation of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see through the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 5 | Knowing the fact-presupposing explanation of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see through the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | That is , we can see that the answer we should give is , ‘ You ca n't , short of giving an entirely new meaning to ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , and why should you want to do that ? ’ |
| 7 | Suppose , now , that a different sort of explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ had been given . |
| 8 | We can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky as we recline in our garden chairs after lunch . |
| 9 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 10 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 11 | The situation is quite different from the one in which we say ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on Mars . |
| 12 | But when it comes to saying , ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is being advanced , not in order to justify an answer to a question of fact that arises within the language-game , but in order to justify an extension of the language-game we have on Earth to the Sun . |
| 13 | We can see this because we are in no doubt as to the fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ . |
| 14 | We are not tempted to give an experiential explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , or beguiled by answers to the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ question like ‘ We mean the same by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ as we mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 15 | We are not tempted to give an experiential explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , or beguiled by answers to the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ question like ‘ We mean the same by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ as we mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 16 | We are not tempted to give an experiential explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , or beguiled by answers to the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ question like ‘ We mean the same by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ as we mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 17 | The fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ is in terms of certain things which happen naturally , such as the earth 's revolving on its axis . |
| 18 | Earlier I said that we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky , and so on . |
| 19 | I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 20 | I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 21 | The third reason relates to the fact that whereas it does n't make sense to say ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun , it does make sense to talk of other people 's feelings . |
| 22 | It 's afternoon . |
| 23 | It 's afternoon . |
| 24 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 25 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 26 | It 's afternoon Miss . |
| 27 | But , having it , it is a fact of grammar ( in Wittgenstein 's sense ) that it is afternoon at a place on the Earth when at that place the Sun is past the zenith but not yet over the horizon . |
| 28 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 29 | It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass . |
| 30 | In London it was afternoon before the furniture van was fully loaded . |