Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If |
| 2 | ‘ If |
| 3 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 4 | Family prayers must have been said with particular fervour that night but it was n't only the dramatic episode that drove Ella Burrows to her knees . |
| 5 | Something similar could have been said for Davout . |
| 6 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 7 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 8 | This gave us a further topic for conversation for , I hope , it might have been said of us ( in Demetrios Capetanakis 's famous line ) : ‘ They were so nice , and interested in cooking . ’ |
| 9 | It is a pity that the same could not have been said of the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders . |
| 10 | It could have been said of Ralph too . |
| 11 | There was no officer gaping for a fee ; this could have been said of no city on the English side of the Tweed . ’ |
| 12 | Whether this could have been said of Halling I know not . |
| 13 | Until 1958 , when Siegmund Warburg masterminded a hostile bid by an Anglo-Canadian consortium for British Aluminium , it would also have been said in both Britain and America . |
| 14 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |