Example sentences of "[adv] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 2 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 3 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 4 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 5 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 6 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 7 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 8 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 9 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 10 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 11 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 12 | The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete . |
| 13 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |
| 14 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 15 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 16 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
| 17 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 18 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 19 | I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising . |
| 20 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 21 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |
| 22 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |
| 23 | This can hardly be said for composers such as Webern , whose fifty-odd songs have accompaniments which are almost undistinguishable one from another and are certainly unmemorable . |
| 24 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 25 | The same can hardly be said of today 's Australia . |
| 26 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 27 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 28 | The development of computer-based public access systems to the holdings of one or more libraries , together with advances in online bibliographic searching , have increasingly led to the use of CAI programmes for user training , yet use of CAI programmes can hardly be said to be widespread . |
| 29 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 30 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |