Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be objected that my argument defines individualism too narrowly ; for rather than contrasting the properties of individuals as such with those of social wholes , I have focussed on a particular range of traits , and in doing so may be said to have neglected properties to which the individualist can legitimately appeal . |
| 2 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 3 | Much might be said of the relation between particular and general causal statements , but here a little must suffice . |
| 4 | Much could be said about all these characteristics but of most significance for our purpose is the role of impartiality in relation to legislative and legal reasoning . |
| 5 | The Cockcroft Committee pointed out that , for pupils with very low scores in GCE and CSE examinations , much could be said about what they do n't know , but little about what they do know . |
| 6 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 7 | Type 10 However much need be said , let it wait . |
| 8 | Needless to say , a full-scale review of the moral justification of private property will not be undertaken , but enough will be said to indicate that there are substantial difficulties in the way of providing a satisfactory justification of corporate power by reference to the shareholders ' supposed moral ownership rights . |
| 9 | ( de Lauretis 1984 , p. 163 ) The impact of this shift on film-making has been that except for overtly feminist films , cinematic practices in the independent sector no longer necessarily can be said to construct a male gaze . |
| 10 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 11 | Before anything further could be said , a middle-aged man entered the room and approached Silas . |
| 12 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 13 | If he wanted to smash a telephone or hurl invective it cleared the air and nothing further would be said . |
| 14 | The channel of communication is radio waves which are modulated to carry the analogue information of the voice ( more will be said about radio waves and methods of modulation in a future article ) . |
| 15 | It also turns out that a single fibre can carry many signals at the same time ( more will be said about this in Part 10 ) . |
| 16 | It hardly can be said to possess discrete ‘ generations ’ , or to consist of discrete ‘ organisms ’ , at all . |
| 17 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 18 | But both can be said to have a basic requirement for nitrogen , which they incorporate into their own proteins and nucleic acids . |
| 19 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 20 | The men also can be said to live up to how they have been described . |
| 21 | Little need be said of flower colour for a child 's garden . |
| 22 | Little need be said of the declared hallmarks of the proper procedures of tribunals of ‘ openness , fairness and impartiality ’ . |
| 23 | Of Russia and Prussia little need be said , for there , as has been seen ( see p. 138 ) the administrative system was the real constitution . |
| 24 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 25 | This means that something at least must be said about alternative types of ambiguity , although a detailed treatment would be well beyond the scope of this book . |
| 26 | my Lord there may not be er if you 've got no money to do anything with or no money to , to , to operate in even if the , remotely vaguely efficient way , that you , how can be said you 'll capable of competing |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 | Christians as a whole however may be said to have been slow to appropriate the results of textual criticism and historical research . |
| 30 | It was not until Compline that his non-appearance provoked wonder , comment and finally uneasiness , for he was unrelenting in observance , whatever else might be said of him . |