Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 2 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 3 | Neither she nor Ladislav could be said to be well-off . |
| 4 | It should be noted moreover that such a Christology is not predicated upon saying that the difference between the sexes is of minimal importance , or simply to be compared with differences of race , with the implication that women can be said to be like Christ and so for example be ordained . |
| 5 | Therefore Judaism and Islam could be said to be in one sense polytheistic and in one sense monotheistic . |
| 6 | If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community . |
| 7 | It is in this complicated sense that misogyny and homophobia once more interconnect , and otherness may be said to inhere within the same . |
| 8 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |