Example sentences of "can say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can say positively that the contents of the letter have not come to the notice of the British . |
| 2 | The crucial test of the electro-weak theory will come only when the experimenters have several Z particles under their belts and can say exactly what its mass is . |
| 3 | The web of confusion that has surrounded the whole Nimslo venture is now so tangled that not even Nimslo can say exactly how much investment the company has attracted . |
| 4 | If a correlation coefficient obtains a value of minus one , or plus one , it means that you only need to know one of the scores of the two and you can say exactly what the other one will be . |
| 5 | ‘ I can say firmly and unambiguously ‘ no ’ , ' declared Leonid Abalkin , the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economic reforms , when questioned on the subject by the government newspaper Izvestia . |
| 6 | The latter is the case with English kin terms — one can say both Henry is my uncle and Henry is my cousin , but only Hello , Uncle ! not , in modern standard English , Hello , Cousin ! |
| 7 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 8 | What we can say instead , unmysteriously , is that putting in the coin , like every other putting-in of a coin , activated the indeterministic mechanism . |
| 9 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
| 10 | We can say categorically that the traditional students " bound notebook is quite inappropriate and furthermore costly . |
| 11 | But I can say confidently that the call is going to come . ’ |
| 12 | Over twenty years that same feature has become apparent to me , so that I can say confidently that one feature of a perfect trotting swim is that it will shallow up gradually downstream . |
| 13 | I assumed there that you can say either ‘ The organism works to propagate all its genes ’ or ‘ The genes work to force a succession of organisms to propagate them . ’ |
| 14 | Not that I can say either Derek or I have ever had any problems in the Bedroom Compartment . |
| 15 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 16 | we can say generally that whatever is regarded as a truth functions as a norm of thinking , [ and ] imposes upon the conscious agent who recognizes it a distinctive selection and organization of some data of his experience . |
| 17 | as soon as possible , if you give them to me some time next week say Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , and we can say right , I want it Friday or Monday , okay , I 've just got to phone them and they will , they will put it on risk for you |
| 18 | Well I think that 's , I think you can categorize , you can say right e , the effectiveness is if you spend seventy five percent of your effort getting prospect accounts on , but you still use twenty five percent of it , to , |
| 19 | Should I have a job specification for everyone in my team , so if I am asked where is it , I can say here it is , and make sure that they are all signed off . |
| 20 | But we can say also that the we 're not new appraisals th we 've been through the pilot |
| 21 | No one can say just how many species of animals there are in these greenhouse-humid dimly lit jungles . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , you can say just that , especially the latter … |
| 23 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 24 | Yeah , but what I 'm saying is that , yeah , but what I 'm saying is when the parent comes to you and says well the primary school said they were you can say well well yes but by by our standards and our assessment when they arrived here |
| 25 | if you 've got an independent person doing the work they can say Well , we do n't mind what you 're doing falling out among yourselves the will says this and this is what we 're going to do . |
| 26 | You can say well I want to do , put my money so and so , what 's the best rate for me ? |
| 27 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 28 | And we can say well that would be the same really erm |
| 29 | erm , my Lord , in relation to that erm and er is an example , the European court itself and only the European court has the power to limit the direct effect of the provision , they can say well it has direct effect in these circumstances prospectively , but not retroactively and only the European court , that court alone has that power , all other courts , national courts must , my Lord this is your duty under article five I would submit to enforce article eighty five and three F |
| 30 | The domestic situation in which things take place , they are really very different and you can start to draw up categories , of course , of countries , small big maybe , small medium big democratic non-democratic , er military dictatorships civilian government erm and so on , so there are whole series of categories of governments that you can draw up and you can say well these do make a difference in the way erm foreign policy is created . |