Example sentences of "[adv] be say [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 3 | However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less . |
| 4 | The same can not be said for left handers since the mean observed frequency is greater than 50 per cent . |
| 5 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 6 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 7 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 8 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |
| 9 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 10 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 11 | I can not speak from experience but the same can probably be said about most instruments if used properly . |
| 12 | If A lacks the legal capacity to transfer the opportunity by his own act to anyone but is in a position by persuasion to procure B , who has the opportunity , to transfer it to C , can A properly be said in this way to provide C with the opportunity indirectly ? |
| 13 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 14 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 15 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |