Example sentences of "shall we say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 2 | It looks sadly as though only too much of England — or shall we say the English populace — is what it seems . |
| 3 | ‘ Slowness is beauty ’ , which struck me as very odd in 1908 ( when I certainly did not believe it ) and has stayed with me ever since — shall we say as proof that you violated British habit ; and thought of it . |
| 4 | Top managers enjoyed an average increase in earnings of 17.8 per cent last year , according to the latest , from Charterhouse ; like P-E Inbucon 's , its results suggest that Lord King of British Airways was , shall we say , a bit ahead of the pack . |
| 5 | In the opinion of Tim Lucas , a director of the wholesale company Simson : ‘ Billingsgate is , shall we say , a little tired . |
| 6 | But the roads on which he drives it also go through most of the art produced in the last half century — shall we say for the sake of convenience , since the death of Trotsky ; or in a more apt frame of reference , since Guernica ? |
| 7 | ‘ I always knew something , shall we say , peculiar was going to happen . |
| 8 | For example , an early story ( it is one of , shall we say , a visit to the sea-side ) might start : |
| 9 | The owner of a couple of narrow boats and his crew are at a great disadvantage when pitted against such competitors as , shall we say , Mr Evans , the Goods Manager of the Midland Railway . |
| 10 | ‘ To be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , we hope that by offering you all the assistance we can that you will respond by being sympathetic to our , er , request for — shall we say , unsensational coverage ? |
| 11 | So far all we know is what has appeared in the newspapers , that you have , shall we say , brought into life a baby — a human baby just like any one of the infants sleeping in their mothers ' arms all over the world — in a way that is to say the least unusual . |
| 12 | I 'm very relieved you 're going into action — and you might like to know I reworded the signal Buckmaster was sending , made it , shall we say less positive . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 14 | She 's standing by , shall we say ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I need to know , er , whether there might be anyone who had cause to feel , shall we say , jealous of Lieutenant Daniel . |
| 16 | ‘ Fräulein Müller is , shall we say , a lady of rather striking appearance . |
| 17 | Anyway , it was part of your task to appear interested in a woman who , if not boring , was lonely and — ’ she gave a high-pitched mirthless laugh — ‘ shall we say , slightly unbalanced — so as to find out … well , whatever it was that you were enquiring into . |
| 18 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 19 | There is no comparable magazine in England ( Private Eye is incomprehensible and Viz , shall we say , lacks subtlety ) . |
| 20 | On the contrary , armed with this guitar , the possibilities are , shall we say , endless … |
| 21 | It has , shall we say , connotations ! |
| 22 | Suffering happens , is not chosen , is a ‘ misfortune ’ ; shall we say that , since by nature attention quickens only as a function of the organism striving towards its goals , the optimum of internal and external stimulation to awareness can be only a matter of chance ? |
| 23 | Shall we say then that he has drifted spontaneously through the crisis without ever making a rational decision as to whether to go or not ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why , but the opposite of failings , shall we say ? |
| 25 | ‘ This young girl you 've engaged , Mrs Markham , ’ she said , laying great emphasis on the word girl , ‘ I should like to get her into my ways or , shall we say , Harry 's ways , before I leave . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , shall we say November 10th then ? ’ |
| 27 | Mr Paul Craddock who is a director of Horizon has kindly sent me some details of the paranormal events that have earned the studio a certain reputation for experiences of the , shall we say , ‘ unexpected ’ . |
| 28 | Of course , in many cases this rigidity is perfectly justified — the notion that the Moon is in fact a vast spaceship placed in Earth-orbit millions of years ago by visiting extraterrestrials has , shall we say , little in its favour . |
| 29 | But this explanation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon : there is a definite difference between , shall we say , an amoeba and a crystal , yet the crystal grows and ( in a very limited sense ) reproduces — two activities that are generally assumed to be characteristic of living material . |
| 30 | In other words , you 've got to have , shall we say , the equipment to go with the line . |