Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 2 | Or w w shall we say that may be said with a bit of a tongue in cheek ? |
| 3 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 4 | All that could be said was that the judges and staff of the court would continue to do all in their power to reduce costs and lead times in the disposal of appellant business . |
| 5 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 6 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 7 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 8 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 9 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 10 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 11 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 12 | erm , and if anybody else has any other post they , they 're interesting in doing in taking on or , or would like to help with that could be said as well could n't it ? |
| 13 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 14 | There were exceptions , recognised by the statute and the courts , but this was not such a case ; all that could be said was that economic damage , perhaps very severe , might be done to the defendant if publicity were not withheld . |
| 15 | They represent by no means all that could be said : only study and practice can lead you to develop the ability to produce clear and precise meanings through the written word . |
| 16 | ‘ That could be said , ’ the pilot sighed . |
| 17 | Even so , there was not much that could be said , other than polite conversation . |
| 18 | When all had been said that could be said , the judge made brief summary , the ballots were cast , and the verdict was solemnly delivered . |
| 19 | Type 7 His book covers most that need be said on the subject . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All that will be said could be put , although often less comfortably , in terms of individual properties or , occasionally , sets of them . |
| 22 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 23 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 24 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 25 | The decor was inclusive in the rent and all that can be said was that the decor was expensive . |
| 26 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 27 | There is much that can be said about the advantages of such a strategy , which is flexible and which can penetrate secular buildings with the salt of the gospel touching the lives of many who otherwise have no contact with the church . |
| 28 | All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is . |
| 29 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 30 | 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 . |