Example sentences of "may be said [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be said that the social work of the cinema is to naturalized certain sense of individual subjectivity by producing cinema-viewing as a timeless and abundant experience . |
| 2 | In conclusion it may be said that the structure of the spirit world constitutes both a model of and a model for the larger social system in which the Buid are embedded . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a beginning , it may be said that the conception of a lexical unit which will be adopted here is not very different from that of a traditional lexicographer , although we shall try to be more explicit than lexicographers are wont to be . |
| 5 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 6 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 7 | Reverting to the construction of sand features and taking the small scale features first it may be said that the formation of sand ripples is closely connected with the process of saltation . |
| 8 | Although , in terms of campaigning , electoral turnout and party identification , it may be said that the two main parties in Britain are less important than they were , Britain still provides us with an example of party government resulting from a party system having considerable independent influence on the political process . |
| 9 | Thus , in the sense that jewellers who keep valuable items in their shop-windows cause smash-and-grab raids and women who walk alone cause rapes , it may be said that the police do , in a sense , cause riots and lawbreaking merely by existing . |
| 10 | As a general rule it may be said that the more serious the breach , the clearer the words needed to exclude liability for it , and that where the court is faced with a choice of two or more interpretations of a clause , it will favour the one which produces the most reasonable result . |
| 11 | It may be said that the section on Henry V has very little detailed discussion of the play 's language and style . |