Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 2 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 3 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 4 | So little archaeological research has been conducted on the ‘ foreign ’ goods from excavations on town sites goods like querns , hones , and pottery — that little can be said for activities at markets and fairs in the Middle |
| 5 | Although both could be said to be reacting against the ossification of Stalinism , the subjectivist and ultra-objectivist paths that they followed were antithetical . |
| 6 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 7 | But more will be said of this ‘ delinquent fringe ’ later . |
| 8 | While all could be said to be right-wing , their sympathies were not identical where other countries were concerned . |
| 9 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |