Example sentences of "say that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 2 | Today , the Foreign Secretary could only say that the Prime Minister is still ’ mobilising ’ — though what he is mobilising is not at all clear , because very little appears to be happening . |
| 3 | For instance , one could not say that the nervous system had simply slowed down , as on occasion the subjects could produce responses as quickly as they could when rested . |
| 4 | On this basis we can say that the vast majority of families with an unskilled manual worker as sole earner were at best only marginally above that line . |
| 5 | So why does Sinead say that the New Testament was forged , and then tell us to read the book of Revelations . |
| 6 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 7 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 8 | Ralston did say that the first volume Knopf intends to publish ( and is now rushing to complete ) will be entitled French Masterpieces of the Barnes Collection , with an introduction by Richard Wattenmaker , an alumnus of the Barnes art appreciation classes , who is currently director of the Archives of American Art in Washington , D.C. Catalogue essays , by a team of ten writers five from the National Gallery in Washington , five from the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in France will examine eighty works from the Barnes to be displayed at the National Gallery , the starting point for the Barnes tour . |
| 9 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 10 | How many times have you heard people say that the greatest gift in the world is good health ? |
| 11 | Aggregate demand = Aggregate supply Only when this condition is satisfied can we say that the total value of goods and services that households and the other economic agents want to buy is equal to the total value that firms want to produce . |
| 12 | Let's just say that the serious lack of accountability in some schemes leaves them wide open to be abused for private and illegal gain . |
| 13 | One could almost say that the second scenes really belong to the interludes which precede them though in the final act Britten adds to Grimes 's last monologue a reprise of the first interlude , whose function is to close out the musical form of the opera as a whole . |
| 14 | Relatives or friends will say that the dying person must have whatever they want . |
| 15 | If we traverse the cycle in the direction J to k to I to J , then some edges of the cycle will have their arrows directed in this direction and we will say that the corresponding variables are forward variables whereas the remaining edges will be directed against the direction of the cycle and we will describe the corresponding variables as reverse variables . |
| 16 | If a dispute arose , would a court take the view that the fiduciary/agent had done all that was required by disclosure , or would it say that the general law still applied and that the fiduciary had to account as well ? |
| 17 | But I can not then say that the real source of electricity is the socket upon the wall . |
| 18 | Until all that has died down , I will only say that the only thing I 'm bothered about is the well-being of the club . |
| 19 | ’ Summing up , ’ said Nilghard , ‘ I must say that the only place where I have seen correspondingly bad situations in Central Europe before is around the biggest airports in West Germany . ’ |
| 20 | Following our view of sadism , we should say that the destructive component had entrenched itself in the super-ego and turned against the ego . |
| 21 | And you can actually say that the average number of visits this week was |
| 22 | While we can say that the average figure is likely to fall between 1 and 3 metres , since we do not know how many are 1.6 metres , 1.7 metres or 2 metres tall , we can not calculate the average . |
| 23 | Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty . |
| 24 | I would not say that the developmental view is a consequence of the thoughtaction analogy exactly , because there could be constructivist theories that do not mention development . |
| 25 | He can not reverse the rule of Common Law ; he can not interfere — at least directly — with proceedings in the Common Law Court ; he can not say that the legal owner is not the legal owner . |
| 26 | I think I , I should say that the current law of the church offers baptism to those who are communicant members or intending members of the church or who are adherents . |
| 27 | Would you say that the current system is perhaps unfair , and that it should be reviewed quite urgently ? |
| 28 | I should say that the current ethos of most departments is relatively left-wing as far as the teaching staff are concerned , but that many of the students hold views considerably further to the right . |
| 29 | Ellen Wilkinson 's old ally , Herbert Morrison , was not prepared to ‘ say that the comprehensive schools should wipe the other schools out of existence ’ . |
| 30 | I will not say that the latter reason was not one of my first pulls towards Theosophy . |