Example sentences of "we [modal v] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the two poets corresponds ( not quite exactly , because the nature and history of French verse differs so greatly from English ) to the distinction that the French make between vers libre and vers libéré ; between , we may say , free verse and freed verse . |
| 2 | So again , if A was tenant in tail , and B tenant in fee simple in reversion , the failure of A's issue at his death , or at any later time , would vest the fee simple in possession in whatever person then represented B. In such cases ownership , we may say , was cut up into lengths called estates . |
| 3 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 4 | Even though we may say , ‘ Make yourself at home ’ , we might be a little taken aback if they took us at our word and kicked off their shoes , lounged around on the settee , helped themselves to our coffee , tea , larder and even our wine ! |
| 5 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 6 | ‘ It was exciting ! ’ we may say in retrospect . |
| 7 | In summing up we may say : something has been made visible which could not have been perceived without the effort to make it visible . |
| 8 | We may say that when a piece of music unexpectedly changes to a minor key this expresses a feeling of foreboding . |
| 9 | Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli . |
| 10 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 11 | As a rule of thumb , with samples of around 1000 individuals we may say that , if the difference in proportions is greater than 0.1 , then an interaction is present , and it is unwise to average the effects . |
| 12 | We may generalize from very limited samples : for example we may say , echoing the words of Michael Flanders ' and Donald Swann 's lovely song of patriotic prejudice that the Irishman ‘ sleeps in his boots and lies in his teeth ’ , that the Welshman is ‘ dishonest , little and dark — more like monkey than man ’ or that the Scotsman is ‘ mean , bony , blotchy and covered with hair ’ . |
| 13 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 14 | Or we may say we do not want treatment which ‘ just keeps us alive without any hope of a cure ’ . |
| 15 | A tranquil enough scene , we may say , once the squads of militia had departed and the floods abated . |
| 16 | Benjamin , we may say to his credit , seems to have taken to Curry Rivel like a fish to water , and would stay there until the day he died . |
| 17 | We may say , then , that the achievement of indexical meaning is commonly a matter of making a connection between the linguistic sign and the relevant aspect of schematic knowledge . |
| 18 | The ghost in the machine is , we may say , the machine itself as it appears to itself … |
| 19 | At the end of the article he writes : ‘ We may say , if we like , that the introspected mind is just a body and its goings on as they appear to the body in question and not to anybody else . |
| 20 | Or , if we prefer it , we may say the physical body as it is described by the anatomist is the more ghostly thing , a phantasy of cells and cell assemblies , a convenient way of talking about ourselves and that we really are more or less what we feel ourselves to be . ’ |
| 21 | We may say to the diviner ‘ You mean ’ you have learnt that when you have a certain feeling of strain in your hands , then water is usually to be found so many feet under the ground ? ’ |
| 22 | We may say that thinking is essentially the activity of operating with signs . |
| 23 | And this multiplicity is not something fixed , given once for all ; but new types of language , new language-games , as we may say , come into existence and others become obsolete and get forgotten … |
| 24 | When the requirements of duties and wishes exceed the limitations that people are working within , we may say that they come to constitute demands . |
| 25 | Thus , although we may say of individuals that they know this or that proposition , we can only explain this fact if we take into account the network of practices in which they live . |
| 26 | We may say that , whilst typically professional work is undertaken in the context of the market , any given concrete activity may have professional and amateur features attributed to it . |
| 27 | Thus for the structural functionalist we may say that the ends ( social solidarity ) always justify the means ( social institutions ) . |
| 28 | The Schism , we may say , tragically helped to polarise increasingly strong nationalist attitudes towards the war . |
| 29 | Looking back , we may say that the years around 1300 were to attain some significance in this domain . |
| 30 | Were it to be that Christian orthodoxy were that a man , Jesus of Nazareth , was God ( or we may say ‘ a god ’ ) , then there would be no hope that Christianity and feminism could be reconciled . |