Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in turn led to DoE Circular 22/83 which recommends that planing gain is only reasonable where it can be said to fairly and directly relate to the actual development being proposed . |
| 2 | If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 3 | I do not believe , whatever I may mean by God , that it could be said of God that God was differently related to one age or people than God is related to all ages or people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link . |
| 6 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 7 | Most important of all was to know the Catechism , and they had to repeat it over and over until it could be said without faltering . |
| 8 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 9 | But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability . |
| 10 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 11 | The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 13 | The calf is supposed to miss its mother as it might be said of a 4-year-old child . |