Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 2 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 3 | This question need not however be pursued since , whatever counsel may have said , it is plain that the district judge did not proceed upon a false hypothesis . |
| 4 | The programme might have said more about technique — what , at plectrum level , made him tangibly different from the folk-group strummer - but was a thorough biography and survived the expressive limitations of rock anecdotage : ‘ His attack to a guitar was , oh , something else … ‘ |
| 5 | Ashley laughed like a drain ; a teetotaller might have said her breath smelled like one . |
| 6 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 7 | The transaction effected by the transfer was , whatever the transfer may have said , a transfer for no , or if the £1,800 is taken into account a derisory , consideration and was not a sale . |
| 8 | ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’ |
| 9 | Well clothing might have said , important merchandise , clothing |
| 10 | Now , if it had simply been given to the woman , Common Law would have said , ‘ We can pay no attention to this separate use . |
| 11 | I wished my little sister could come said Jean , I 'd love to show her Mallory Towers . |
| 12 | The realisation that , no matter what Roman might have said to her , and whether he was faithful to her or not , he and Stephanie were a couple … |
| 13 | Point is , do you see , whatever your Mama might have said , point is , it 's time you had a new one . ’ |
| 14 | Just how little the opening of a new Front in the east matched the widespread desire for a rapid end to the war , and how risky the extension of the conflict was felt to be , can be seen in the admission , a few months later , by Adolf Wagner , Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria , at a meeting of Party functionaries , that if Hitler had consulted the German people before the start of the war in the east about its readiness for the Russian campaign , the vast majority of the population would have said : ‘ My God , keep your hands off , my dear Adolf Hitler . |
| 15 | Sneaking off and joining up as if this war were some marvellous crusade , ’ Mama would have said . |
| 16 | ‘ The Editor ’ , he blandly explained , ‘ can not be called dishonest for making his author speak what he believes , with more knowledge , the author would have said . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't believe that a policeman could have said such a thing . |
| 18 | The more the searcher asked to see the daughter , the more the daughter was hidden until that planned moment of ‘ chance ’ arrived when all was revealed , and all was , as my young Sheikh would have said , ‘ perfectly well ’ . |
| 19 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 20 | But as Phillips ' Amerind character would 've said , ‘ The spirit horse came to cart this one off about an hour ago . ’ |
| 21 | But as Phillips ' Amerind character would 've said , ‘ The spirit horse came to cart this one off about an hour ago . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Steyn suggested one Prime Suspect voter may have said they voted for GBH , and then ‘ a little lie snowballed ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Steyn suggested one Prime Suspect voter may have said they voted for GBH , and then ‘ a little lie snowballed ’ . |
| 24 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 25 | On page 27 of the last issue of Credit Management , the footnote should have said that individual voluntary arrangements account for 13 per cent ( not 1 per cent as was printed ) of personal failures . |
| 26 | Whatever the anti-nuclear movement might have said about the way the result was achieved , the CEGB had got the outcome it wanted . |
| 27 | As the ancient Mariner might have said , |
| 28 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 29 | Had Kenneth Grahame known about seaplanes when he wrote Wind in the Willows that is what Toad would have said . |
| 30 | But for us the effort still far outweighed the really terrifying prospect of trying to make a living working forty-hour weeks , as our father would have said , " like proper , responsible adults " . |