Example sentences of "we can [adv] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something . |
| 2 | We can not say that having faith in Christ makes life easy . |
| 3 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 4 | Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist . |
| 5 | And we can not say that one way of perceiving things is more real than another . |
| 6 | We can not say that there is a separate , solid , objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways . |
| 7 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 8 | Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain . |
| 9 | 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 . ) . |
| 10 | We can not say that " eight " is more precise , in the context , than " seven " ( nor vice versa ) . |
| 11 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 12 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 13 | Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse . |
| 14 | Therefore , we can not say that the environment elsewhere does not concern us . |
| 15 | For in the circumstances of ordinary politics the checkerboard strategy will prevent instances of injustice that would otherwise occur , and we can not say that justice requires not eliminating any injustice unless we can eliminate all . |
| 16 | By applying the Pareto condition , we can not say that the oil discovery improves actual economic welfare . |
| 17 | 1 In the most basic sense , we can simply say that the British Constitution is the " set-up " as it is . |
| 18 | If he makes no will we can hardly say that there is in early times any common law as to how his goods shall be divided ; much or all will depend on local custom . |
| 19 | Without undervaluing the private sphere itself , we can still say that this arrangement works to the advantage of men . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 21 | Let's , you know I mean Judith 's saying , well I 've got some good work sheets on this , I mean we can all say that if we all know where the work sheets are |
| 22 | He was regarded on both sides of the House not only as charming , but as very honest and courageous , and I think that we can genuinely say that he had friendships on both sides . |
| 23 | We can certainly say that in an important sense a record is finished — finite , objectified — in a way that oral performance is not ; indeed , in this sense it is , ironically , recordings rather than scores which represent an extreme form of reified abstraction ( with the resulting potential alienation of producer and consumer ) . |
| 24 | On the basis of our stated principles we can therefore say that unc and unc are both real properties of the proton B. However quantum mechanics does not permit them to enjoy this status simultaneously , since they correspond to operators which do not commute with each other ( p. 28 ) . |
| 25 | It is in virtue of ( 5 ) , ( 7 ) , and ( 8 ) that we can truly say that the circumstance makes happen and explains the effect , and not the other way on . |
| 26 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 27 | Given the detail of the account recorded here , we can safely say that it is time to move on , to pursue other routes for harnessing fusion . |
| 28 | ‘ At last , I think we can safely say that you are understanding the situation correctly . ’ |
| 29 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |
| 30 | Looking back , we can now say that Franco 's response to the Moroccan crisis gave a clear indication that 1956 marked a turning point in his political and personal life . |