Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 2 | It used to be said that ‘ if you ca n't say what you want to say in three minutes , forget it ’ . |
| 3 | It used to be said — in the face of evidence of a growing and changing repertory of enormous size — that Karajan was interested in technology because after so many years in the business he had exhausted his interest in the music itself . |
| 4 | It used to be said with a considerable amount of justification that you could get as far as Inspector on your own bat but after that ‘ No ’ , you needed somebody pushing you — city councillor , anything . |
| 5 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 6 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 7 | It used to be said in World War Two that careless talk cost lives . |
| 8 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 9 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 10 | It used to be said that any salmon running up the Dee made a one-way journey . |
| 11 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 12 | It used to be said that the gypsies stole little children . |
| 13 | IT used to be said that ‘ you planted pears for your heirs ’ , the inference being that a generation could pass before the pear trees came into crop . |
| 14 | It used to be said there are a lot of very prosperous , very prosperous farmers round in Melton Mowbray . |
| 15 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 16 | I think that ought to be said to staff . |
| 17 | And Dyson felt that something ought to be said . |
| 18 | Now , if ever , between hymn and prayer , something ought to be said about Hilary . |
| 19 | It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers . |
| 20 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |