Example sentences of "it [modal v] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be said to have begun with a golliwog , ’ he wrote , ’ and ended with an alsatian bitch' . |
| 2 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 3 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 4 | It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral . |
| 5 | It may be said that the social work of the cinema is to naturalized certain sense of individual subjectivity by producing cinema-viewing as a timeless and abundant experience . |
| 6 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 7 | In consequence , how many people are there today of whom it may be said , as regards their use of themselves , ‘ in form and moving how express and admirable ’ ? |
| 8 | It may be said that we have to plan for the future , and I entirely agree , but most of our thoughts can be best described as nonsense . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 10 | As the leading Ramsay scholar Alistair Smart has written , after 1754 , ‘ It may be said that where Ramsay previously coloured , now he tints . ’ |
| 11 | Hence it may be said that ‘ health service inflation ’ has risen faster than inflation in the rest of the economy . |
| 12 | In conclusion it may be said that the structure of the spirit world constitutes both a model of and a model for the larger social system in which the Buid are embedded . |
| 13 | However , ‘ it may be said that … because one thing may be the sole evidence of the existence of another thing , it does not follow that the two are one and the same . |
| 14 | The attribute whiteness ( it may be said ) is not the fact of receiving the sensation , but something in the object itself ; a power inherent in it ; something in virtue of which the object produces the sensation ’ . |
| 15 | It may be said that a sensation of heat in the hand is not really an impression as of our hand being hot , but is simply something that we normally happen to get when our hand heats up . |
| 16 | All right , it may be said , to say ‘ I know ’ and ‘ I remember ’ and ‘ I hope ’ is to do something ; but nevertheless there are some utterances which are no more than expressions of mental states , namely when the mental states in question are simply sensations , such as aches and pains . |
| 17 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 18 | It may be said at once that these questions can not be answered with complete certainty . |
| 19 | In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable . |
| 20 | This situation might seem more difficult in the case of physical activities such as walking : I walk , with or without conscious effort , it may be said , but have no access of any kind to the associated brain , nerve and muscle activities , even though we have perfectly good physiological evidence for the regular association of those activities with the act of walking . |
| 21 | Even in the human case , it may be said ( Dreyfus 1972 ) , it is doubtful whether computations like those used in AI go on ( except possibly during conscious logical or mathematical calculation ) . |
| 22 | It may be said that in some cases , at least , such a tendency will show up in that species merely as itself — that is to say , as a merely biological character of that species . |
| 23 | To allow people to comfort themselves that less than the best ( or equal best ) is good enough , is , it may be said , just a recipe for idle complacency . |
| 24 | It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all . |
| 25 | As against this , it may be said that it is psychologically impossible ( or perhaps impossible in some stronger logical sense ) to retain either beliefs or attitudes of which the inconsistency has become manifest to one . |
| 26 | Summing up the Japanese impact on Korea , it may be said that efficient but harsh administration was provided ; economic progress was promoted yet in a distorted way , designed to benefit the colonial master . |
| 27 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 28 | In general it may be said that ‘ Cromwell 's decade ’ saw a doubling of the ordinary revenue of the Crown — though it also saw an increased expenditure , especially on the household , administration , defence , and Ireland . |
| 29 | Moreover , it allows us to adjudicate on a matter with which the bible does not concern itself ( as it may be said not to concern itself with the question of the liberation of women ) . |
| 30 | Thus it may be said ( stage one ) that fundamental to the biblical outlook is that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek , nor bond nor free , no more male and female . |