Example sentences of "say that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 2 | After all , you do n't say that one only ‘ has toothache ’ if one is capable of doing such-and-such . |
| 3 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 4 | I am sure that when the Minister speaks he will say that one can not discriminate against one group of private sector employers . |
| 5 | In the fashion of the philosophers John Locke and David Hume one may say that one can not live as a total sceptic or one would achieve nothing . |
| 6 | I certainly recall visiting residential and nursing homes in my constituency of which one could genuinely say that one would be pleased to be a member of that community . |
| 7 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 8 | There are Christians who would say that one can meditate a lifetime on them . |
| 9 | I 'd say that one … |
| 10 | And I will say that myself I was very promiscuous sexually , I will say that because I think a lot of people want to leave that out of the story , well not me thank you very much . |
| 11 | Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman is reassuring on this point : ‘ I think I can safely say that no-one understands quantum mechanics . |
| 12 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 13 | But if there is a substantial enough change in the functioning of the animal we might say that its welfare is poor , even if the animal itself does not detect that its welfare is poor . |
| 14 | Finally , if an animal is coping with extremely adverse conditions by self-narcotisation , I would say that its welfare is poor but the effect of the narcotic may mean that it is not suffering . |
| 15 | ‘ I heard the master say that they were fun , ’ said Mr Eames . |
| 16 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 17 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 18 | Few women brought up in India can truthfully say that they have never felt Sharam . |
| 19 | We might speculate further and say that they probably lived very close to the well because of the importance of water in the life of a Middle Eastern family . |
| 20 | The orthodox Jews are the only community in this country where sex is on women 's terms , and where women can truthfully say that they are not used by their husbands . |
| 21 | Those who have been bereaved will say that they do not know how to behave as newly-bereaved people . |
| 22 | Conversation dries up , strain and tension increases and relatives will say that they know that the only thing that can break this living and extended nightmare is the death of the person whose bed they are sitting round , but ‘ What a dreadful thought to have . ’ |
| 23 | People will say that they seem to be wishing that the person would hurry up and die , but in reality it seems that this event is the only one that can break the suspended animation of events being acted out in front of them . |
| 24 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 26 | If this quotation were referring to attachments between adult human subjects , most such persons would probably say that they were aware of their state of attachment , even though in their daily lives this would not necessarily be detectable in their behaviour . |
| 27 | I can not say that they were happy days , but they taught me what life is about . |
| 28 | ( For example , they might say that they have a woman deacon in their parish , or that they have chosen a woman — or a man — as their doctor . ) |
| 29 | On many occasions I have heard environmentalists say that they do not wish to be ‘ tarred by the same brush ’ which has so comprehensively covered some extremists in the Animal Rights Movement and which has brought that movement into disrepute . |
| 30 | They do not therefore say that they need fewer teachers . |