Example sentences of "be say about [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 2 | This means that something at least must be said about alternative types of ambiguity , although a detailed treatment would be well beyond the scope of this book . |
| 3 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 4 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 5 | But there is still more to be said about linguistic norms . |