Example sentences of "[adv] [be] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 2 | What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work . |
| 3 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 4 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 5 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |
| 6 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 7 | When Huw reappeared , having lain low for several days , his scars and bruises were beginning to fade and nothing more was said on either side . |
| 8 | So no more was said about that . |
| 9 | This can also be said of many of the larger species of Cichlasoma which often end up as pets for a number of reasons . |
| 10 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 11 | I can not speak from experience but the same can probably be said about most instruments if used properly . |
| 12 | If A lacks the legal capacity to transfer the opportunity by his own act to anyone but is in a position by persuasion to procure B , who has the opportunity , to transfer it to C , can A properly be said in this way to provide C with the opportunity indirectly ? |
| 13 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 14 | Talking around the subject and not coming directly to the point ; saying in 30 words what might equally be said in 10 . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 16 | The same can then be said of social and stylistic factors . |
| 17 | Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information . |
| 18 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |
| 19 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 20 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |