Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be said " in BNC.
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| 31 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 32 | ‘ But then , I have never in my life known a single headmaster of whom that might not be said . ’ |
| 33 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
| 34 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
| 35 | Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment . |
| 36 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 37 | In such a situation , the participants may , in fact , ‘ speak topically ’ , but they might also be said to be speaking on a topic . |
| 38 | In one sense it might also be said to have laboured to produce a mouse . |
| 39 | It might also be said that the Portland Limestone of southern England is the Tithonian limestone in yet another form , with what is mainly a molluscan fauna of limited diversity . |
| 40 | Talking around the subject and not coming directly to the point ; saying in 30 words what might equally be said in 10 . |
| 41 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 42 | A flower or tree might well be said to show signs of distress much as an athlete might unwittingly show symptoms of it , although it would be inappropriate to describe a watch in that way . |
| 43 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 44 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 45 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 48 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 49 | that there was no delay either in the investigation of the complaint or in the bringing of these proceedings which could properly be said to constitute an abuse of the process of the court ; |
| 50 | It is submitted on behalf of the Attorney-General that there was no delay , either in the investigation of the complaint against the respondent or in the bringing of proceedings against him which could properly be said to amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 51 | The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent . |
| 52 | We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational . |
| 53 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 54 | Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial ! |
| 55 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |
| 56 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 57 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 58 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 59 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 60 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |