Example sentences of "[vb mod] be say in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Version ( i ) might be said in conversation on hearing someone 's name , as in this example : A : John Cleese is a very funny actor .
2 Some of that evidence , it might be said in parenthesis , appears to be adverse to the appellants .
3 He controlled an efficient network of spies : nothing could be said in Delhi without Aurangzeb coming to hear of it .
4 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 .
5 That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect .
6 However they decided the case on another basis and Pearson LJ said " it may be said in answer to the possibility of such a reductio ad absurdum , though no doubt , it has to be taken into account , is far from conclusive , because it may involve unlikely hypotheses , which would be outside the reasonable expectations of the parties at the time of the making of the contract of employment " .
7 Soon it would be said in England as it was said on the Continent , that a good Catholic is a man whose wife goes to church .
8 Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , as would be said in cricket , a ‘ ball being bowled ’ .
9 The court has now three divisions : a Queen 's Bench Division , a Chancery Division , and a Family Division ( successor to the probate , Divorce , and Admiralty Division , of which something will be said in Chapter 3 ) .
10 With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case .
11 The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage .
12 Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page .
13 It can be said in conclusion that these developments have become central to the future of the ‘ GIS revolution ’ of the late 1980s , since it is now clear that the massive ( and desirable ) growth of the use of GIS can not be supported without improvements to the use environment experienced by the user .
14 One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities .
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