Example sentences of "may [be] say " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 32 | ( vi ) The same may be said for a passage of Paul . |
| 33 | ‘ The various shops may be said to form an inverted L , the southern arm following the railway towards London , while the western section is bounded by the Grand Junction Canal and the Stratford Road . |
| 34 | The point at which the system may be said to have commenced was in the Progress Office . |
| 35 | Any electronic drawing system that allows the designer to sketch , visualise and change plans or ideas may be said to offer CAD . |
| 36 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the edges are blurred and no one is sure just when youth may be said to be past and the second stage of adult life begun . |
| 37 | In consequence , how many people are there today of whom it may be said , as regards their use of themselves , ‘ in form and moving how express and admirable ’ ? |
| 38 | It may be said that we have to plan for the future , and I entirely agree , but most of our thoughts can be best described as nonsense . |
| 39 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 40 | It is characteristic of fixed capital that it has an assumed lifespan — without taking into account the problem of technological obsolescence — and therefore its replacement may be said to be time-proportional . |
| 41 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 42 | This leaves a wide range of activities in an area of unregulated uncertainty , including telephone tapping ; this may be official , under Ministerial approval ‘ in the national interest ’ , which Parliament may be said to have condoned or sanctioned , or it may be unofficial in the interests of , say , commercial or industrial espionage , in which case an offence is committed , if only the misappropriation of electric current ! |
| 43 | Both Toby and Jo had valuable experiences , although the more obvious mathematical one may be said to lie with Jo and his companion in their appreciation of the relative sizes of the blocks and their places in the storage boxes . |
| 44 | Our simple macroeconomy may be said to be in equilibrium when aggregate demand ( i.e. the total demand for final goods and services in the economy ) is equal to national income ( i.e. the total value of all final goods and services produced ) : this is often referred to as equilibrium in the goods market . |
| 45 | There are those today who may be said to be living as though Pentecost had never taken place . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | As the leading Ramsay scholar Alistair Smart has written , after 1754 , ‘ It may be said that where Ramsay previously coloured , now he tints . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ So rigorous is he ( i.e. McGavran ) in dispelling romantic notions and false theological rationalisations of non-growth that he may be said to have de-mythologised this subject . |
| 49 | However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless . |
| 50 | Hence it may be said that ‘ health service inflation ’ has risen faster than inflation in the rest of the economy . |
| 51 | Thus , a child may be said to acquire the rules of grammar , although it is difficult to see how such rules can be established as a result of numerous discrete learning experiences . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | ‘ 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 . ' |
| 54 | However , ‘ it may be said that … because one thing may be the sole evidence of the existence of another thing , it does not follow that the two are one and the same . |
| 55 | The attribute whiteness ( it may be said ) is not the fact of receiving the sensation , but something in the object itself ; a power inherent in it ; something in virtue of which the object produces the sensation ’ . |
| 56 | It may be said that a sensation of heat in the hand is not really an impression as of our hand being hot , but is simply something that we normally happen to get when our hand heats up . |
| 57 | In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences . |
| 58 | All right , it may be said , to say ‘ I know ’ and ‘ I remember ’ and ‘ I hope ’ is to do something ; but nevertheless there are some utterances which are no more than expressions of mental states , namely when the mental states in question are simply sensations , such as aches and pains . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | It may be said at once that these questions can not be answered with complete certainty . |