Example sentences of "[adv] [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 2 | It had all been said on the track where both McLaren 's new MP4/7As , driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger , were non-finishers . |
| 3 | The thing that concerns me , as I go about describing , for the Nth time , the world 's most famous electric guitar , is that it 's all been said before . |
| 4 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 5 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
| 6 | And he and his wife together are saying a women deserves to be raped . |
| 7 | The object of the exercise is to move the debate forward to another place where another group of individuals will also have a free vote and it 's quite rightly been said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 10 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 13 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 14 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 15 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 16 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 17 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 18 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 19 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 20 | So it 'd only be say from there to the roof round . |
| 21 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon . |
| 24 | But it should perhaps be said that amateur boxers often avoid the excesses and the injuries of their professional colleagues , and the likes of Dick MacTaggart is a monument to sportsmanlike behaviour . |
| 25 | It will perhaps be said that , although there may be no inherent difficulty in establishing criteria of relevance to choices of means , the vagueness of ‘ Be aware ’ for choices of ends reduces it to meaninglessness as our proposed ‘ first principle ’ . |
| 26 | John Barber , in the Daily Telegraph , described Crawford as ‘ a winsome young comedian who recalls Harold Lloyd ’ and his performance as ‘ a continual delight ’ but added , ‘ It should perhaps be said that there is nothing pornographic in the show — nor , I am afraid , much wit or natural jollity . |
| 27 | However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target . |
| 28 | An alternative way of looking at it would perhaps be to say the Greater York Area is that area within ten miles of the city centre as is indicated by the third of the criteria set out in policy H two . |
| 29 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 30 | The Hwange national park alone is said to have 45,000 elephants : three times as many as the vegetation can support . |