Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 2 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |
| 3 | That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant . |
| 4 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 5 | With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment . |
| 6 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 7 | When a three- or four-year-old child first comes to school , his real concern could almost be said to be his own identity . |
| 8 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 9 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 10 | DRINKERS at TV 's most famous bar may soon be saying cheers in another watering hole . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is doubtful that an inanimate entity can meaningfully be said to have interests , or if it could , what they would be . |
| 12 | In recent years , the Committee has noted , with disappointment , that the new Legal Aid Board was not ‘ a Legal Services Board with overall responsibility for legal aid and legal services ’ ; that the present system could not be said to constitute a ‘ comprehensive system of legal services offering good early advice ’ ; and that in considering reform to the legal profession , there had been a failure by government ‘ to examine the place that lawyers ’ services should occupy in the field of legal services as a whole . ’ |
| 13 | For , in its guise as the Parliamentary Labour Party , British Empirical Socialism can not be said to have intended , when governing the country , to have replaced private ownership of industry wholly by public ownership . |
| 14 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 15 | So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage . |
| 16 | The pure gothic novel can safely be said to have started with Horace Walpole , the rich and eccentric son of the first Prime Minister of England . |
| 17 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 18 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 19 | ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals . |
| 20 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 21 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |