Example sentences of "you may say " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may say that it is feeble in colour and monotonous in tone — it may be so , but it touches the heart , it arrests the attention ; and what is the use of all your correct drawing and pure tints , and skill in light and shade , if your subject leaves me cold and unaffected . |
| 2 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 3 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 4 | But surely , you may say , consciousness does consist of determinate mental episodes . |
| 5 | He is too quick , moreover , in his offhand dismissal of the thought that the girl was ‘ abnormal ’ : ‘ You may say whatever you want ; still it is enough to make your universal declaration false if one single case contradicts you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You may say that as often as you like . ’ |
| 7 | Now you may say : does this really matter ? |
| 8 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing wrong with that , you may say . |
| 10 | A farce , you may say , since the vast majority of such cases result in an out of court settlement by a wealthy defendant ( poor or uninsured persons are rarely the subject of such actions ) . |
| 11 | You may say , ‘ Yes . |
| 12 | If I am wrong , you may say nothing , and I vow I will not ask you again . ’ |
| 13 | The awkwardness will probably prompt you to talk just for the sake of filling in the space , and you may say more than you wanted to or even find yourself talking rubbish . |
| 14 | you may say , ‘ all we have to do is buy a female . |
| 15 | You may say , well , you 're lucky to have it , but … ’ |
| 16 | Guy 's senior dietician , Karen Sorensen , said : ‘ You may say the dietary director refused to comment . ’ |
| 17 | But surely all this , you may say , is self-evident . |
| 18 | But you may say , ‘ I thought the Bulgarian Christians were poor . |
| 19 | You may say at the end of all this , ‘ Well , where does all this have you ? |
| 20 | That 's all very well , you may say , but not if you 've got a boss like mine , or your office has a filing clerk like ours . |
| 21 | Fine , you may say . |
| 22 | You may say he has an intimidating record . |
| 23 | You may say that you could hardly trust me saying it because I 'm wealthy enough to be able to come here from Japan to study . |
| 24 | ‘ Aha , ’ came Googol 's response over the radio , ‘ but you may say you are those same three people inside those suits … ’ |
| 25 | But has that not always been the cry , you may say everything already written , heard or said ; art dead , creative spirits extinct ? |
| 26 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 27 | " You may say it , my lord . |
| 28 | So that was our first se good school , as you may say then and then within about four years they built Tanys Dell and erm we just you know , we formed a quite a a a very good community here because we were all people from different areas we all had the same problems trying to re-adjust in a new place and I think then , we had more relationship with , with our neighbours than people are having today . |
| 29 | " I like to write , " you may say , " for clergymen of studious and scholarly habit . " |
| 30 | Now , you may say , ‘ So what ? ’ |