Example sentences of "we can say " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 2 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 3 | ‘ What we can say , however , is that smacking and beating mothers do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . ’ |
| 4 | Following J. S. Coleman 's terminology we can say that ‘ the effect of political interest on awareness of opinion polls was 41 per cent ’ in the pre-Campaign Wave . |
| 5 | We can say that the relationship between marriage system and terminology is itself highly variable and so too is the way they interact on each other . |
| 6 | We can say anything to each other . |
| 7 | All we can say is do n't look back ! |
| 8 | Now that he is not , we can say , with luck we shall not see his like again . |
| 9 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 10 | Looking at the sweep of the whole narrative from Genesis 1 outwards , we can say that God has made laughter for himself also , and for the whole world . |
| 11 | All we can say is that the burden of the wood adds further poignancy to an already heart-rending story , and throughout the journey acts as an all too visible reminder to Abraham of the act he is about to commit . |
| 12 | More than ten years ago Peter Laslett complained that ‘ we can say little yet about the everyday relationship between old people and their grown-up , independent children for any period earlier than recent times . ’ |
| 13 | If we exclude these brief references , we can say that 290 of the 444 interviews contain no memories of any grandparent . |
| 14 | We can say , however , that whatever may be true of acquired distinctiveness , the reality of acquired equivalence must be accepted . |
| 15 | For only in this way can we take up the saying ‘ pray without ceasing ’ as being possible , if we can say that the whole life of the saint is one mighty , integrated prayer . |
| 16 | All we can say in general is that there is a critical frequency , a knife-edge . |
| 17 | All we can say is , it 's about time ! |
| 18 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |
| 19 | It ought to be possible to get to a position where we can say with regard to a specific query : ‘ These are the most inherently valuable sources available worldwide ‘ about ’ that subject . ’ |
| 20 | We can say that being female therefore also has an indirect effect on absenteeism , through the type of work performed . |
| 21 | Being convicted involves being identified publicly as a criminal , and it is in this context that we can say that being found guilty is the same as being guilty . |
| 22 | For the purposes of the present discussion we can say that these statistics display a number of clear patterns . |
| 23 | What we can say , though , is that juvenile crime and street violence have been characteristics of British society over hundreds of years , rather than being indicative of a contemporary moral and social disintegration . |
| 24 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 25 | We can say that we are truly what we think . |
| 26 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |
| 27 | From the wide experience , we can say that the committees of the Engineering Board are generally more tolerant of new ideas . |
| 28 | We can say only that the project has some experienced sonar experts , including Bill Thomas of Kelvin Hughes and Dr Brian Woodward of Loughborough University , and from Simrad of Norway , who have the longest commercial experience of horizontal sonar in the world . |
| 29 | We can say , too , that if there are large creatures in Loch Ness , then they would appear on sonar just as we have recorded them . |
| 30 | No , it 's not often we can say that . |