Example sentences of "[modal v] be to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simple directive must be to say ‘ let go ’ . |
| 2 | A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling . |
| 3 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 4 | Another way of looking at this might be to say in a sense there are there are two bits , one is identifying where we are now and identifying in relation to both |
| 5 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 6 | One may be to say that , although the use of the word ‘ threatening ’ is primarily a matter for the tribunal of fact , as a matter of law a person can not be held to threaten when his threatened conduct is ‘ lawful . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 8 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 9 | The natural reaction to that situation would be to say : ‘ Well , let's take the cause which is admitted to be in operation , and stop it , and then see if things are all right afterwards . |
| 10 | One way of putting this would be to say that with the deconstruction of these intervening cultural developments , we can see the early modern clearly once again . |
| 11 | But , indeed , the whole general effect is to divorce Resident Tutors from the WEA ; the Resident Tutor would be excluded from urban areas , while on the other hand the WEA would be to say the least of it extremely circumscribed in rural areas . |
| 12 | ‘ Now the quickest way to diminish acid rain would be to say , ‘ Right , we will not use any British coal , we will use coal from overseas which has no sulphur . ’ |
| 13 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 14 | To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat . |
| 15 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 16 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 17 | The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent . |
| 18 | A better way of being assertive and getting what you want would be to say : |
| 19 | One would be to say that the predicating of names like ‘ white ’ does not involve classification ( taking classification to be the performing of tests indicated by the definition of the general name ) . |
| 20 | Another would be to say that whereas some classes ( for example , the class ‘ metal ’ ) are grounded on resemblance in some respect , others ( for example , the class ‘ sensation of white ’ ) are not grounded on resemblance at all . |
| 21 | Another way of putting this would be to say that the perspectival appearance of an object at a point of view is a function of the object 's real figure , its inclination relative to the point of view , and its distance from the point of view , and is a function of nothing else . |
| 22 | It makes no more sense to say that the perspectival appearance is true ( or false ) of the object than it would be to say that the size of the angle of a triangle is true ( or false ) of the other two angles , which determine its size . |
| 23 | One way of expressing this point would be to say that my body as it is for me is sensitive , whereas my body in the midst of the world is sensible ( meaning , to be sensed or perceived ) . |
| 24 | A simpler way of describing its position would be to say that it is part of the transitional zone between the Oriental and Australian regions . |
| 25 | The ultimate arrogance would be to say I do n't care . |
| 26 | Another approach would be to say that it is I , not some part of me called ‘ reason ’ , which sees that this is how the system of my impulses should be organized . |
| 27 | Another would be to say he attempted to theorize the very position that Sartre had fought to get out of . |
| 28 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 29 | The rational approach would be to say candidly that the question , being legislative , must be settled with the help of the policy implicit in the Act , or by reference to convenience or social requirements or generally accepted principles of fairness . |
| 30 | The proper way to put the last sentence would be to say : ‘ If B is charged with such-and-such a crime , he will have a good defence . ’ |