Example sentences of "may [adv] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a fictional character , described in the third person , there is nothing that may not be said . |
| 2 | Consent may thus be said to require not merely a knowledge of the physical facts of sexual intercourse but some elementary appreciation of the significance of the act in its biological , social and moral context . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 5 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 6 | It may also be said that Caldwell is concerned with foresight of consequences , whereas Morgan is concerned with knowledge of circumstances . |
| 7 | The same may also be said of the existence of a right of appeal . |
| 8 | In the case of some evangelical writers ( though not Barth ) it may also be said that male dominance is fundamental to creation and found in all known human societies . |
| 9 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 10 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 11 | This may also be said of the fibre intake in man where we generally eat a low fibre diet but evolved eating a high fibre diet . |
| 12 | Similarly , women are not beyond attraction to a young boy , although it may probably be said that this is less often the case . |
| 13 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 14 | But it may now be said that , so far from being a depressing conclusion , this states precisely the practical importance of conventionalism for adjudication . |
| 15 | It may now be said , however , that a self-conscious conventionalist would indeed ponder over past doctrine in the way actual judges do , not for evidence of popular opinion but more directly , because any lawmaker must take care to make new law consistent with old . |
| 16 | For the call to liberate the poor , it may well be said , is to be read directly out of scripture . |
| 17 | It may well be said that the patriarchal understanding of what it means to be male is abandoned . |
| 18 | It may simply be said that it is just a ‘ fact ’ that Jesus was male , and that therefore priests should be . ) |
| 19 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 20 | Such topics are kept ‘ off the agenda ’ by the dominant group who may then be said to have the power of non-decision-making as well as decision-making . |
| 21 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 22 | ‘ It may safely be said that all good gardening consists in putting the right plant in the right place . ’ |
| 23 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 24 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 25 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |