Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pers pn] be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 2 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 3 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 4 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 5 | Not for the first time could it be said that ‘ God blew with his wind ’ and kept England and Cornwall safe from foreign invasion . |
| 6 | In none of these cases could it be said that if a person entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer to another . |
| 7 | Not until James VI of Scotland became James I of England at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey could it be said that a truly Scottish monarch had once more been ritually crowned upon the Stone of Destiny . |
| 8 | Could it be said that it benefits the land ( i.e. it seeks to keep the residential character of the area ) ? |
| 9 | In none of those cases could it be said that , if one entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer into another . |
| 10 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 11 | In similar vein , dare it be said that the charitable function of Age Concern serves this dual function ? |
| 12 | Since that time bureaucratic foot-dragging and dare it be said ? politics have continued to delay the project . |
| 13 | ( Soap and water , need it be said , are extremely slippery customers . ) |
| 14 | The idea of a rational democracy is , not that the people themselves govern , but that they have security for good government … the best government ( need it be said ? ) must be the government of the wisest , and these must always be a few . |
| 15 | Systems Development captained by Paul Anderson ( need it be said — also of Technology ) , retained the Inter Branch/Department Shield with a narrow victory over George Gay 's Oddbods team . |
| 16 | A scorcher of a free kick from Paul Simpson made it 3-2 and the fourth ; well if you were Newcastle manager , Ossie Ardiles what would you be saying to goalkeeper , Tommy Wright after this ? |
| 17 | If you were Brian Horton , what would you be doing , what would you be saying to them ? |
| 18 | May it be said of you that you found Paris stinking and left it sweet . ’ |
| 19 | Of the races and communities of Burma may it be said , ‘ See how these people love one another . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But what will you be saying if you see yourself in a month 's time with a list on you like the Leaning Tower of Pisa ? |
| 21 | ‘ And what will you be saying ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 23 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 24 | So can she be said to have died as a result of the accident ? ’ |
| 25 | While Shatov expounds and disputes ardently , and incidentally takes a lot of good- and God-focused material off the shoulders of the notebook Stavrogin ( ‘ ‘ Shatov must be tied up before you can argue with him , ' ’ Stepan Verkhovensky sometimes joked' ) , only to Kirillov can it be said and is it said , ‘ you have n't swallowed an idea , but an idea has swallowed you ’ — to which he responds delightedly with ‘ That 's good . |
| 26 | But can it be said that such a duty lies on individuals and groups ? |
| 27 | On only three out of approximately 180 occasions , therefore , can it be said that the inspectors had been less than absolutely fair in the opinion of those who were criticised . |
| 28 | Still less can it be said that Jesus had a feminist interpretation of social realities . |
| 29 | Not since the nineteenth century can it be said that Parliament has made policy directly . |
| 30 | Accordingly in my judgment it is not correct to describe the document as a will at that stage nor can it be said in my judgment that by his signature Mr. Winterbone intended to give effect to the document as any kind of effective document . |