Example sentences of "may be said [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 2 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 3 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 4 | It may be said of many palaeontologists , as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians : " Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present " . |
| 5 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |