Example sentences of "have be say " in BNC.

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1 she 's it could 've been saying
2 It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so .
3 It has been said , by Dan Jacobson , that he ‘ aestheticises ’ his response to violence .
4 This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes .
5 These books and plays and films reveal a humanity which surmounts , as has been said , the hardship and brutality they describe — surmounts it , as a rule , by laughing at it .
6 And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack .
7 A lot has been said recently about the Ballerina series of trees .
8 It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place .
9 Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints .
10 ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said .
11 In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’
12 It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy .
13 It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion .
14 It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ !
15 Of my aunt herself has been said , ‘ She was always so patient ; and so kind to the little ones ; the kindest , sweetest person I ever knew . ’
16 No word has been said about his fears for his sons .
17 If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said .
18 As will be clear from all that has been said so far , it seems that this short time is barely adequate for the person concerned to have dealt with all the issues involved in adjusting to the death of a loved one .
19 All that has been said earlier about the need to have time to take in bad news is obviously not appropriate .
20 It has been said that he understood the psychology of an orchestra better than almost any other conductor .
21 It has been said that we can regard ATP as a common currency which must be spent to provide energy whenever it is needed — to drive chemical reactions , to cause muscles to contract , or to pump substances across membranes .
22 His zeal has been said to border on the autocratic , especially on the sets of his films .
23 ENOUGH has been said about George Harrison and the Natural Law Party .
24 But it has been said before we should have professional referees — the sooner it 's sorted out the better .
25 Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD .
26 It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion .
27 In the light of what has been said above about the nature of the relationships between managerial and professional processes in schools , the competency/threshold model currently being developed would seem to have little to offer in terms of meeting the need for a move towards holistic management processes .
28 This is the case of Austria , for instance , of which it has been said that ‘ banished to insignificant social roles , Austrian federalism has taken on something of a folklore quality ’ .
29 Indeed , it has been said that the north-west of Scotland has a higher sustained wind speed than any other inhabited part of the world ( Gloyne 1968 ) .
30 Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature .
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