Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] may be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 2 | It is because God is not subject to such things that He may be said not to suffer , at least in the way human beings do . |
| 3 | ‘ So rigorous is he ( i.e. McGavran ) in dispelling romantic notions and false theological rationalisations of non-growth that he may be said to have de-mythologised this subject . |
| 4 | The extent of the duty to state reasons thus varies according to the nature and context of the measure in question , and it may be said that it is not required to go into matters of detail to a disproportionate extent . |
| 5 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 6 | The decision was not an easy one and was criticized by many who feared the consequences , as Salisbury told Law : " If it may be said to have finally made possible the destruction of the constitution , the prostitution of the Prerogative , the Repeal of the Union and the Disendowment of the Welsh Church , it will probably rank as the most costly policy in history . " |
| 7 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 10 | Moreover , it allows us to adjudicate on a matter with which the bible does not concern itself ( as it may be said not to concern itself with the question of the liberation of women ) . |