Example sentences of "may [be] say " in BNC.

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1 I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise .
2 Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk .
3 Whatever else may be said about the Cathedral 's architecture and its glass and its sculpture , no one would dispute the success of Ralph Beyer 's contributions , known as The Tablets of the Word and cut in Hollington stone on a grand scale .
4 ‘ It may be said to have begun with a golliwog , ’ he wrote , ’ and ended with an alsatian bitch' .
5 It is because God is not subject to such things that He may be said not to suffer , at least in the way human beings do .
6 It is in this complicated sense that misogyny and homophobia once more interconnect , and otherness may be said to inhere within the same .
7 We should remember that he does not claim definitely to be refuting the Aristotelians , but merely to be pointing out what may be said against them .
8 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 .
9 Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction .
10 A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude .
11 In so far as this tendency brought with it loss of belief in survival , the Evangelicals may be said to have unintentionally contributed to the process .
12 Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children .
13 This may be said to amount to a mutual exercise of the individuals ' rights of self-determination .
14 To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results .
15 Each citizen may be said to have the right not to have sexual choices imposed on him or her ; whether the law should go further , and hold that each citizen has the right to pursue his or her sexual choices consensually with another ( subject to public-decency laws and to the protection of the young ) , is a question to be considered separately .
16 The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) .
17 In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us .
18 ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble .
19 It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it .
20 The same may be said of the BMC engine but parts ( service items or for disasters ) are much more readily available for the LR unit .
21 Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners .
22 Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners .
23 It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral .
24 His subsequent development , however , may be said to demonstrate an autonomous and self-referential orientation : his later works confirm the anti-representational and non-recuperable trend in postmodernist fiction .
25 Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to .
26 ‘ If by ‘ ability ’ we mean ‘ measured intelligence ’ and by ‘ opportunity ’ access to grammar schools , then opportunity may be said to stand in close relationship with ability in both these areas to-day . ’
27 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 .
28 Whatever else may be said about Britain 's standing abroad , one indisputable fact , albeit a somewhat dubious distinction , is that , in the field of sexually transmitted diseases , this country leads the world .
29 Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance .
30 On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator .
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