Example sentences of "would be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general … rejection appears to increase with the development of disability and the continuation of caring … only a handful of these disabled mothers would be said to be receiving tending in a context which was predominantly loving … |
| 2 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 3 | For the moment , nothing would be said to Oliver himself . |
| 4 | The speaker of [ 14 ] was a newsreader on Radio 4 : In a Gricean framework ( Grice 1981 ) , a speaker who produces an utterance knowing in advance that the hearer will not be able to establish its relevance would be said to be deliberately flouting the maxim of relation in order to achieve a special effect . |
| 5 | The margins applied to the spot rate would be said to be at a premium , premium because it makes the US$ more expensive in terms of sterling to enable the cost to be passed on . |
| 6 | Many years later , it would be said of Australia that it was not a sea-going nation but a surf-going one . |
| 7 | The same would be said of two men with individual sights on the record book . |
| 8 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 9 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 10 | Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , as would be said in cricket , a ‘ ball being bowled ’ . |
| 11 | Soon it would be said in England as it was said on the Continent , that a good Catholic is a man whose wife goes to church . |