Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 2 | Nothing could be said and they just sat in silence enjoying each other 's company . |
| 3 | He controlled an efficient network of spies : nothing could be said in Delhi without Aurangzeb coming to hear of it . |
| 4 | However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy . |
| 5 | Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms . |
| 6 | Both Toby and Jo had valuable experiences , although the more obvious mathematical one may be said to lie with Jo and his companion in their appreciation of the relative sizes of the blocks and their places in the storage boxes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | First , however , something must be said about the existing patterns and trends of the curriculum in higher education . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 1988 ) ; nevertheless , something must be said briefly about the factors which complicate the curriculum-employment nexus . |
| 11 | However , something must be said if only briefly about Lawton 's other headings . |
| 12 | Before the definition of a contract of sale of goods is 1–3 considered , something must be said of the history and sources of the law relating to sale of goods . |
| 13 | 2.33 Something must be said next about claims by parents for the death of their adult children . |
| 14 | There was a curious silence , a moment when it seemed that something might be said . |
| 15 | These matters are important because they explain how Pound and Eliot , who had campaigned as a team and would help each other for many years to come , radically differed not just in themes and attitudes ( of which something will be said hereafter ) but at this deep level , in the not altogether conscious interstices of their craft . |
| 16 | The court has now three divisions : a Queen 's Bench Division , a Chancery Division , and a Family Division ( successor to the probate , Divorce , and Admiralty Division , of which something will be said in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 17 | In each case , something will be said about the literature on each type , the patterns or sub-types that exist , and the problems and issues associated with them , beginning with the ‘ professional ’ course . |
| 18 | Why , he thought — if one can be said to think in dreams — did I ever take this on ? |
| 19 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 20 | For the moment , nothing would be said to Oliver himself . |
| 21 | essentially And nothing will be said But |
| 22 | If anyone can be said to deserve a holiday , she told herself firmly , then I am the one . |
| 23 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 24 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 25 | A nihilistic view about the policy implications of recent theoretical work in the area of vertical restraints would be that , since almost anything can happen , nothing can be said about policy . |
| 26 | It would have been better to avoid a war , but it was right to resist an indefensible aggression by a regime in whose favour nothing can be said . |
| 27 | But it is important to note that since nothing can be said about the magnitudes of the differences between the various elements along the continuum , none of the standard arithmetic operations can legitimately be used . |
| 28 | Of the promotions made under Cnut , nothing can be said of the origins of Ælfric II of Elmham , Leofgar of Lichfield , Brihtmær of Lichfield and Æthelric of Selsey , or of the reasons why Ælfric Puttoc , the praepositus of Winchester , was made archbishop of York in 1023 . |