Example sentences of "[coord] as it be say " in BNC.

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1 The cases cited , and referred to in depth by my noble and learned friends , have proceeded on the basis that on the one hand money paid under a mistake of fact or under duress or as it is said ‘ colore officii ’ can be recovered , whereas money paid under a mistake of law or voluntarily ‘ to close a transaction ’ or to avoid threatened litigation can not .
2 Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals .
3 There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one .
4 In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " .
5 Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change .
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