Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 2 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 3 | So it could be said that Michael Palin 's whose career went against what his father wished for him — All the more unforgivable because , unlike his father , he has followed ‘ my natural inclination ’ — and succeeded . |
| 4 | Thus we may be said to have duties of kindness towards the animals ; but it is incorrect to represent these as strictly duties towards the animals themselves , as if they had rights against us . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus it may be said ( stage one ) that fundamental to the biblical outlook is that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek , nor bond nor free , no more male and female . |
| 8 | But further it must be said , in response to the conservative position , that it was not simply a matter of whim or chance that women were not in the past ordained . |
| 9 | Also it could be said that the role of Equality Officer is , by its name , more open to being filled by man or woman than it was when it was known as Women 's Special Representative . |
| 10 | Hence it may be said that ‘ health service inflation ’ has risen faster than inflation in the rest of the economy . |
| 11 | Since the notional content of adjectives , on the other hand , does not define the nature of their support but only a quality thereof they can be said to have external incidence . |
| 12 | Inevitably it will be said that it is too soon for such syntheses . |
| 13 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 14 | But here it must be said that John Calvin wanted a weekly communion and the only reason that Knox did n't follow suit in Scotland was the difficulty of organising such events in the rural parishes with a paucity of reformed clergy available to celebrate the sacrament . |
| 15 | Alternatively it may be said bluntly that in all cases of intimidation , whatever the nature of the threatened act , C's cause of action is wholly independent of B's . |
| 16 | If you can make her laugh while you 're coming in her mouth , then you might be said to have arrived . |
| 17 | All is not dark in these accounts , and indeed they can be said to gleam with a quality of reflected light . |
| 18 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
| 19 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 20 | Once a practice has become well established in terms of the relationship within or between different organs of the state , finding recognition in works of authority and by those involved in its operation , then it may be said to have reached the status of a convention . |
| 21 | And if undermining the left was the intention of the reforms , then it must be said that they failed dismally . |
| 22 | But if Trible 's position is that she is a literary critic , pursuing rhetorical criticism without commitment to the text , then it must be said that the impression she gives is often very different . |
| 23 | And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included . |
| 24 | Of course , as recognized by the judge in the above case , if the structure is dictated by function then it can be said to be an uncopyrightable idea although , often that will not be so ; there will be a variety of potential structures possible . |
| 25 | At least it can be said we were lively , we were an animated lot . |
| 26 | At least it can be said that the former shows a more commendable motivation . |
| 27 | Yet at least it can be said that the long and complex history of the relations between cultural producers and their material means of production has not ended , but is still open and active . |
| 28 | At least it can be said that these educational programmes may diminish the occasional experimental use ( which may be damaging in itself ) by those who do not have addictive disease . |
| 29 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 30 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |