Example sentences of "be said [conj] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 2 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |
| 3 | It has been said that a negative character quality is a positive quality misused . |
| 4 | It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates . |
| 5 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 6 | It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps . |
| 7 | It has been said that no application from a major firm for a capacity increment has ever been flatly rejected , although some have been delayed . |
| 8 | It has been said that no normal English speaker would ever pronounce all the consonants between the last two words of the following : ‘ George the Sixth 's throne ’ Though this is not impossible to pronounce , something like … is more likely . |
| 9 | It has often been said that the majority of European farmers live poor , but die rich . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |
| 12 | It has often been said that the non-neurotic person is one whose repressive mechanisms work well . |
| 13 | It has been said that the Church has a responsibility to ‘ engage the culture of our nation with the gospel . ’ |
| 14 | It has been said that the name Lowthorpe or Logetorp could have meant ‘ Law-village ’ in ancient Norse . |
| 15 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 16 | It has often been said that the family kept the process secret , but this seems unlikely , since it is known that pearl ash was used to secure the transparency . |
| 17 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 18 | It has been said that the mission to Dessau on May 28 was the roughest the Group ever experienced . |
| 19 | It has often been said that the decisive development since Darwin was a new synthesis , in the 1920s and 1930s , of Mendel on heredity and Darwin on selection . |
| 20 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 21 | It follows from what has just been said that the identity of the respondent is not of much importance in defining the scope of judicial review . |
| 22 | It has been said that the theory of the Oedipus complex is culturally ethnocentric , and that in other cultures , with different family systems , there is no Oedipus complex . |
| 23 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 24 | It has been said that the word ’ semantics ’ refers to the analysis of the meaning of single sentences . |
| 25 | It has been said that the real question in the case is the degree of restriction that can be imposed upon a sovereign State in negotiating with another State in matters that affect the vital interests of third States . |
| 26 | But for the fact that the rioters supported the Government , itself widely believed to regard the riots with tacit approval , it could have been said that the country was on the point of revolution . |
| 27 | para 4 : It has also been said that the problem of induction is … |
| 28 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 29 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 30 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |