Example sentences of "be said with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 2 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 3 | The one thing that can be said with certainty about mildew is that it is unpredictable . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Can it be said with certainty that the court will , under section 2(2) , exempt the third party from liability to make a contribution ? |
| 5 | All that can really be said with certainty is that quasi-governmental bodies generally operate in narrower , more specific areas than government departments or local authorities . |
| 6 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
| 7 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |