Example sentences of "to say the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 2 | On the other hand , for a patient with severe word-finding difficulties , you may have to label all the normal objects round the home , and ask the patient to say the name of the object and point to it every time he wants something . |
| 3 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 4 | Here again we can ask what else we could possibly start from other than what is given , that is to say the evidence of our senses . |
| 5 | Needless to say the sense of elation with which the rational expectations hypothesis infected the new classical economists was not shared by Keynesians . |
| 6 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 7 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 8 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 9 | It is by now quite well known ( certainly it will have come to the attention of those who attended the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 ) that the European Court 's method of interpreting Community legal texts is primarily teleological , that is to say the interpretation of a provision on the basis of its object and purpose . |
| 10 | Observation sentences can be individually verified and our acceptance of them justified one by one , and constitute the evidence on which the non-observational , that is to say the whole of science , must rest ; this is the epistemological asymmetry . |
| 11 | But but first of all I would like to say the officers of the agencies really should be congratulated on . |
| 12 | They take place in and indeed are sometimes identified in part by a location , which is to say the location of a person or other organism . |
| 13 | An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway . |
| 14 | I think first of all , I 'd like to be very brief , but just to say the purpose of this short report with the appendices has not got any special status with food control , just set the record straight as to what we are capable of doing currently and what we ca n't do . |
| 15 | Do you want to say the prayer of Saint Francis ? |
| 16 | In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up . |
| 17 | It is I believe a result of that situation that reference to the correct , that is to say the continuation of washing-over , was not known in the documents first submitted by way of representation to various planning . |
| 18 | i think it 's fair to say the majority of our investing members , just live round and about . |
| 19 | Because the treatments are so specific does that mean to say the possibility of side effects are smaller . |
| 20 | Needless to say the chance of obtaining this rare aeroplane made sure that funds were forthcoming and on May 5 , 1964 Firefly Z2033 , piloted by Tage Paller with observer/engineer Kenneth Skold flew from Gothenberg to Staverton . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell me about your acting career , ’ he invited with an abrupt change of topic as if to say the matter of the earrings was forgotten , though she knew it was n't . |
| 23 | We are told that to say the body of Jesus actually lived again is " to confuse the categories " . |
| 24 | Those rules are therefore designed to preclude , in so far as is possible and from the outset , the possibility of a situation arising such as that referred to in article 27(3) , that is to say the non-recognition of a judgment on account of its irreconcilability with a judgment given in a dispute between the same parties in the state in which recognition is sought . |
| 25 | Every business or public organization has its market , that is to say the group of existing and potential buyers or users of its goods and services . |
| 26 | However , the most usual ground is that based on delay , that is to say the lapse of time between the commission of the offence and the start of the trial . |
| 27 | ‘ However , the most usual ground is that based on delay , that is to say the lapse of time between the commission of the offence and the start of the trial . |
| 28 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 29 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 30 | In such circumstances the language of kinship — that is to say the set of words which fulfil the domestic purposes of the English words " father " , " mother " , " brother " , " sister " , " uncle " , " aunt " , and so on — is used to denote what we might otherwise be inclined to regard as economic , political , legal or religious relationships . |