Example sentences of "we say that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person if , and only if , he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express — that is , if he knows what observations would lead him , under certain conditions , to accept the proposition as being true , or reject it as being false . |
| 2 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
| 3 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |
| 4 | When we say that a flag at half-mast means that someone has died , we refer to a social convention that death shall be marked in this way . |
| 5 | Just as a motor car can not run along the road without an engine , we say that a food service facility , be it a hotel or restaurant , can not run without its engine and that engine is the food production facility . |
| 6 | When we say that a ring round the moon means rain , we refer to a connection in nature . |
| 7 | The poem mentions the tolling of a bell ; we say that a bell ‘ tolls ’ when it sounds one repeated single note . |
| 8 | But sometimes when we say that every person is only required to sacrifice a little we mean that the antecedently expected sacrifice is small , i.e. that the odds that he will have to sacrifice a lot are small . |
| 9 | Let's say that every Thursday , we say that every skip that leaves here contains metal and rubber and somebody puts paper in there . |
| 10 | We say that the man , who utters the same sounds as the parrot , is asserting that he is going to the bank because he is a man , and not a parrot . |
| 11 | We say that the state as a whole does wrong in accepting an internal compromise because it then compromises its principles . |
| 12 | When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force . |
| 13 | Under such circumstances we say that the head encapsulates the meaning of the dependent item . |
| 14 | Well the , the fourth point in relation to er we say that the point has been fully pleaded , corsation is a question of fact , the , er , it 's not an issue which we say arises on these preliminary issues and can raise it er under order eighteen , rule nineteen , if they so wish , that is traditionally the places where it seems nexus points arise erm and they will put in , er app , we will put in , the defendants will put in appropriate evidence at that point , depending upon whether the , the strike out allows evidence and how they frame their strike out , but the nexus point is fully pleaded , we set out step by step and in relation to er restrictions how they were caused the loss , my Lord at that point , at this point we believe that 's all we have to do and certainly we believe that it be sufficient to get over a strike out |
| 15 | ‘ We say that the letter was written by Paula Gilfoyle but it was written at the defendant 's request and dictation and no such person as Nigel existed . |
| 16 | McTaggart comments : ‘ It might perhaps suffice if we say that the relation between the living body and the mental state must not be mediated by intervention of any other living body . ’ |
| 17 | Thus we say that the feeling quality between two parallel lines is different from the feeling between two lines that cross . |
| 18 | If P is some occam term and x is a variable , we say that an occurrence of x in P is free if it is not in the scope of any declaration ( other than a parallel declaration ) of x in P , and bound otherwise . |