Example sentences of "[modal v] be said about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we look at some examples to illustrate this falsificationist conception of the progress of science , a word should be said about the claim that ‘ Science starts with problems ’ . |
| 2 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 3 | All scholars agree that the text of Boniface IV 's letter which is quoted here was a forgery of the eleventh century , and something must be said about this later . |
| 4 | First , however , something must be said about the existing patterns and trends of the curriculum in higher education . |
| 5 | The system of higher education in the UK is usually described in institutional rather than curricular terms , and even in a book on the curriculum something must be said about the pattern of institutions since this affects what is taught . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It shows that something more must be said about what a convention is , about how much and what kind of agreement is necessary in order that a particular proposition of law can be true in virtue of a particular legal convention . |
| 8 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Watching Richard Arthurs was a lesson to us all , but what could be said about Ian Harrison ? ! |
| 11 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 12 | The same could be said about Tokyo . |
| 13 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 17 | Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 20 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 23 | Whatever may be said about Ecclesiastes — and many things have been said about him — he decried traditional wisdom . |
| 24 | If such be the case , what may be said about the Muftiliks of Molla Yegan and Molla Fenari ? |
| 25 | The same may be said about loans at call to members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) . |
| 26 | An example of the fixed charge is the mortgage and no more need be said about it here . |
| 27 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | It is possible to conduct this debate without either side maintaining that the internal organization of the units matters ( witness what will be said about Game Theory in Chapter 6 ) . |