Example sentences of "[conj] you could say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 2 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 3 | Or you could say erm that if communism can be equated with secret police and the Gulag Archipelago |
| 4 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 5 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 6 | This is a very important way of handling statistics , is n't it , in a sense , I mean , if you 're talking about , in another context , if you talk about recidivism , and , and you say forty percent of people who go into prison reoffend within the following five years , that 's the down side , or you could say sixty percent do n't , or sixty percent keep out , and it 's all a question of how you actually phrase it . |
| 7 | And it was to look at basic supermarket products really that are sourced from the Third World , and to try and have a standard that you could say , yes , that 's been traded fairly . |
| 8 | But sometimes I , I do feel that the girls , I , I know a couple of people in other departments that you could say would do the job equally well as the man they 've put in , they probably |
| 9 | So I think that you could say that I arrived in Jesselton in a mood of pleasurable anticipation . |
| 10 | Right but then I suppose that you could say that it 's the idea of the balm cake which it would be on the level of the , in , in intellect |
| 11 | Come holiday time , Stanley closed the school and was off north quicker than you could say algebra . |
| 12 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 13 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 14 | Which was more than you could say for her and Ross , Laura thought miserably . |
| 15 | Everybody had a secret identity , so you could say what you liked and nobody knew who you really were . |
| 16 | Erm , so you could say what does the psychological agency , the ego , do ? |
| 17 | I 'm not at my best in red , so you could say I was not on top of the world . ’ |
| 18 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |
| 19 | It does say that they are collected on a monthly basis , so you could say that okay they are . |
| 20 | And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film . |
| 21 | And you could say I get about a lot without meeting anybody . |
| 22 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 23 | But he 's done us proud and you could say he 's an improving nine-year-old and there are n't many of those about . |
| 24 | ‘ When Kimberley divorced her husband and made off wi ’ t' other , Lorraine and she fell out and you could say I was fumin' as well . |
| 25 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 26 | And you could say , look what we 've done with . |
| 27 | Yeah yeah erm you could write just outside it here like save and you could say that you save forty pence . |
| 28 | And you could say , . |
| 29 | I do n't think I could blame you , but Tobie would be happy if you could say no . ’ |
| 30 | Actually , if you could say it was short for ‘ Mistress ’ , which is rather nice , and very correct in Scotland … |