Example sentences of "say [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not prepared to preach to the British — ‘ I do n't really know too much about them ’ — but he did say that no one could expect success without putting in a great deal of hard work . |
| 2 | Some would say that no degree of handicap warrants being encouraged to die . |
| 3 | First the drummers come on — I may say that no women are allowed to take part in this ritual and the ladies here will perhaps agree with me that they are fortunate in that omission . |
| 4 | Why does Lord Staveley say that no honest woman is safe with you ? |
| 5 | The vendor will almost certainly say that no one knows more about the business than the management . |
| 6 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
| 7 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
| 8 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 9 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 10 | Therefore , one can say that a Rottweiler who achieves international championship status in the Nordic countries has to be a Rottweiler of the very highest standard . |
| 11 | You can , of course , say that a certain bait catches more bream than any other , but what you really mean is that a certain bait is used more often than any other on the waters with which you are acquainted . |
| 12 | Today , cynics would say that a building contract never has the chance of being put away as disputes start from the moment it comes into operation . |
| 13 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 14 | And you ca n't say that a woman on her own , going out to work , with no kids , just doing for herself , is a housewife like say I 'm a housewife . |
| 15 | Dare I say that a set of vintage pickups and a lick of conductive paint would almost complete the sonic illusion , in the same way that burying the neck and body in peat for a few months would crown the guitar 's appearance ! |
| 16 | We will say that a tableau is optimal over a degenerate interval , if θ = θ . |
| 17 | We will say that a feasible solution is efficient if it is dominated by no other feasible solution . |
| 18 | I would say that a band like Soundgarden probably attracts more of a metal crowd . |
| 19 | Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority . |
| 20 | Simplifying somewhat , we might say that a structural approach to language teaching lays emphasis on systemic knowledge and makes the assumption that once this is acquired the learners will discover for themselves how it is put to use in communication . |
| 21 | The Finance Houses Association , representing the biggest finance houses , told us that many of their members would say that a personal interview in an applicant 's own home , allowing the personal judgment of an experienced assessor , and an element of ‘ gut-feeling ’ would be the ideal . |
| 22 | ‘ But did n't you just say that a ship at sea does n't transmit ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You could say that a great many English women are still metaphorically wearing the yashmak , ’ she said now , speaking with a kind of didactic , impersonal severity , as if I were a studio audience . |
| 24 | By placing paragraphs on the links , one can say that a paragraph is about a certain relation between two nodes — not just about a node . |
| 25 | Between the Buid and the Christians there is a difference in outlook so profound that one might almost say that a state of permanent antagonism and hostility prevails between them . |
| 26 | Similarly , one can say that a bodily sensation has the intrinsic quality of being a tingle , or is hall-marked ‘ tingling ’ , but not that it has an in-the-foot quality . ) |
| 27 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 28 | However , one can say that a logically inconsistent set of attitudes bears the inevitable seeds of emotional disharmony within the individual and is likely to make effective action impossible by promoting patterns of behaviour which prevent each others ' successful issue . |
| 29 | Following the lines laid down there , and using Bernstein 's work on class and language codes , we could say that a language of explicit meaning ( broadly speaking , the middle-class code ) is a language in which what is expressed is ‘ a function of the psychological qualities of the person ’ . |
| 30 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |