Example sentences of "all [adj] [modal v] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 2 | All that could be said was that the judges and staff of the court would continue to do all in their power to reduce costs and lead times in the disposal of appellant business . |
| 3 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 4 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 5 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 6 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 7 | There were exceptions , recognised by the statute and the courts , but this was not such a case ; all that could be said was that economic damage , perhaps very severe , might be done to the defendant if publicity were not withheld . |
| 8 | They represent by no means all that could be said : only study and practice can lead you to develop the ability to produce clear and precise meanings through the written word . |
| 9 | All that will be said could be put , although often less comfortably , in terms of individual properties or , occasionally , sets of them . |
| 10 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 11 | The decor was inclusive in the rent and all that can be said was that the decor was expensive . |
| 12 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 13 | All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is . |
| 14 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 15 | One is fast relative to the other , or slow relative to the other — and that 's all that can be said . ’ |
| 16 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 17 | We now have some sketch of the scope of meaning that is referred to in the definition , namely all that can be said to have been communicated , in Grice 's sense , by the use of a linguistic token in a context . |
| 18 | I think that all that can be said , has been said Chairman and I think that prudence is the leadership today . . |
| 19 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |