Example sentences of "be said [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Away from home taping , I think it can safely be said that no-one 's cause is helped by the bootlegging/piracy/counterfeiting trade that goes on . |
| 2 | But by an extension of remedies and a flexible procedure it can be said that something resembling a system of public law is being developed . |
| 3 | Situationist influence was more menacingly felt in France especially in the universities , although it has to be said that their influence upon the events of May 1968 has been exaggerated . |
| 4 | But it has to be said that their bass player Steve Harris does have his own football pitch and his own pub ! |
| 5 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 6 | Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable . |
| 7 | Crown Court judges differ from lay magistrates in a number of important respects ( though it could be said that their ideologies are similar ) . |
| 8 | For the same reason , civil servants above a certain level can not take an overt or active part in politics in case it could be said that their opinions influenced the minister . |
| 9 | ( It should be said that their size meant packing was very easy and they were watertight . ) |
| 10 | It could be said that her rights were born together with her ; and from birth with her guardian 's help she could bring the action and endeavour to show that the injury from which she suffered was caused prior to her birth through the fault of the defendant . |
| 11 | It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively . |
| 12 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 13 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , it could be said that they had prospered . |
| 16 | And if undermining the left was the intention of the reforms , then it must be said that they failed dismally . |
| 17 | In fairness , it must be said that they do point to other influential factors as well — to the need to raise the status and public worth of the teaching profession , to improve leadership skills among school principals , to restructure the curriculum , and so on . |
| 18 | Against launderettes it also has to be said that they do not fit the media image of the perfect housewife . |
| 19 | Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity . |
| 20 | Finally , of all schemes which assign gender to different persons of the Godhead , which suggest that God in God 's undifferentiated unity is female and as differentiated is male , or which see God as ‘ male ’ and humanity as ‘ female ’ in relation to God , it must be said that they necessarily fuel gender differentiation . |
| 21 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 22 | It has to be said that they usually look fairly cheerful on their way in . |
| 23 | It could be said that they have abandoned whole areas of their responsibility to the national museums . |
| 24 | It must also be said that they were not alone in their efforts to secure the Francoist state against those it branded as " anti-Spain " . |
| 25 | But , although Park and the Chicago School recognised these two levels of human behaviour , it should be said that they did still engage in some largely unhelpful metaphors between the social and the natural worlds . |
| 26 | Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them . |
| 27 | It should be said that we have no intention of implementing this ratio . |
| 28 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 29 | It will be said that we are not doing justice to the viewpoint of the opposing group . |
| 30 | It may be said that we have to plan for the future , and I entirely agree , but most of our thoughts can be best described as nonsense . |