Example sentences of "[that] the [noun sg] [modal v] be said " in BNC.

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1 Others , such as Rizzi ( 1939 ) and Burnham ( 1941 ) , earlier argued that the bureaucracy could be said to own public property , albeit collectively , not individually .
2 The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance .
3 Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head .
4 And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ?
5 In other words , the undersurface curves upwards as it approaches the trailing edge.In fact this is so prominent in the Flexifoil that the section could be said to be upside down !
6 W. P. Hartley also made donations so that the movement could be said to have been financially based on Quaker chocolate and Methodist jam .
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