Example sentences of "[noun] be said in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 2 | Bishops were ordered to ensure that prayers were said in every church for the success of the king 's expeditions to France , and news of the great victory of Crécy was proclaimed throughout the realm . |
| 3 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 4 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 5 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 6 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned these sort of things are said in every office , ’ said Mr Wilson . |
| 7 | Many framework knitters were said in 1778 to work from 5 a.m to 10 p.m. in summer , but this was considered a departure from the more usual start at 6 a.m and finishing at dusk in the winter . |
| 8 | He said that all the important things in life are said in Latin . |
| 9 | Western countries led by France were said in some reports to be fearful of the destabilization of Morocco should a UN-organized vote go against King Hassan II 's claim to Western Sahara . |
| 10 | Never a truer word is said in jest , Roirbak thought . |
| 11 | This word was said in such a way , and accompanied by a look , that told the woman behind the counter that she did n't know her business , because they 'd never had a pennorth of tiger nuts . |
| 12 | In Sare itself apparently , on Sundays in October , a special mass is said in the church at 3 a.m. for those who are going out shooting , and the celebrant is later repaid for his early rising by a gift of live palombes . |
| 13 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 14 | Margaret Hughes was said in court to have been a farmer for 40 years . |
| 15 | Could Belfast be said in this sense to be a single speech community separate from Lurgan ? or do Lurgan speakers show sensitivity to the same sets of variables ? |
| 16 | Now what is in fact being said in a Christology created within such a cultural framework , is that God in Christ took on ‘ humanity ’ — the universal . |