Example sentences of "we shall say " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall say the same if , when the testator had instituted a sole heir , for the sake of the person who would be heir on intestacy he wrote ‘ I ask in place of the estate which I left to you , which would pass on intestacy to my brother , that you be content with 100 gold pieces . ' |
| 2 | We shall say more of this in another chapter , but Eileen Vincent emphasises this idea of the need to move on as she reflects on the church planting ministry : |
| 3 | At this stage , therefore , we shall say nothing about the range of theories which can be brought to bear on international relations , if one believes in working from the inside in pursuit of understanding . |
| 4 | We shall say no more for the moment , but the difficult topic of meaning , intention , and motive will be central to Chapter 8 . |
| 5 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 6 | He would begin , presumably , by noting the larger-scale features of context : what channel is being used ( we shall say speech ) , what language code is being used ( we shall specify it is English ) , what message-form is being performed ( we shall specify it is conversation ) , what event is it embedded in ( we shall specify it is part of an interview ) . |
| 7 | When it is said ( as we shall say ) that the sentence That 's a dog entails the sentence That 's an animal , what is meant is that in any conceivable situation in which That 's a dog can ( with appropriate reference ) express a true proposition , there exists a corresponding proposition ( i.e. with no change in the referents of referring expressions ) expressible by That 's an animal , whose truth is a necessary consequence of the truth of the first proposition . |
| 8 | We shall say , then , that the meaning of a word is fully reflected in its contextual relations ; in fact , we can go further , and say that , for present purposes , the meaning of a word is constituted by its contextual relations . |
| 9 | We shall say that the word form cousin is general with respect to the distinction ‘ male cousin ’ / ’ female cousin ’ ; bank , on the other hand , will be said to be ambiguous with respect to the sense distinction ‘ financial institution ’ / ’ side of river ’ . |
| 10 | If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , and every occurrence of Y stands in the relation R ( or its converse , if R is asymmetric ) to X , then we shall say that X is a congruent R of Y : |
| 11 | If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , but there are occurrences of Y which do not stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X is a hypo-R of Y , and Y a super-R of X : |
| 12 | If some , but not all , occurrences of X stand in the relation R to Y , and some , but not all , occurrences of Y stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X and Y are semi-Rs : |
| 13 | If the combination is normal , we shall say that the lexical units involved are philonyms ; if the combination is pleonastic , we shall speak of head and tautonym ; if dissonance results , the lexical units will be labelled xenonyms . |
| 14 | A branching hierarchy requires a relation of dominance with a very particular property , namely , that of being , as we shall say , differentiable . |
| 15 | Now we shall say that in a class of materials the current density at any point is proportional to the electric field ; in mathematical form |
| 16 | This is the largest distance d ( y , z ) between any two points in C. We shall say that a point x is nearly central in C if for every point z in C , the distance d ( x , z ) is less than two thirds of C's diameter . |
| 17 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 18 | Er but we shall er we shall say , this is your home address because we shall have to tell the council , but er you 're not here , you 're at Steve 's . |