Example sentences of "[prep] be say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 2 | Whilst owing his debt to Lorca , it has to be said that this volume is markedly conservative . |
| 3 | It has to be said that the plays are somewhat thin in material , and the characterisation weak , but they were both offended by the offhand refusal and the Corporation 's unwillingness to offer even the slightest guidance for the betterment of the projects . |
| 4 | To conclude , it has to be said that balance is the most important factor in chest development . |
| 5 | It has to be said that there are no easy routes here ; even the 5cs would probably be a 6a anywhere else . |
| 6 | It used to be said that ‘ if you ca n't say what you want to say in three minutes , forget it ’ . |
| 7 | In fairness it has to be said that Levin tries to isolate Debord from a purely formal Modernism , and from naive realism ( the politics of the signified ) . |
| 8 | Situationist influence was more menacingly felt in France especially in the universities , although it has to be said that their influence upon the events of May 1968 has been exaggerated . |
| 9 | It will compel B to let C make the legal claim in his name ; in the last resort it might allow C to take proceedings in Equity in his own name against A. Thus it came to be said that ‘ in Equity debts and choses in action are assignable ’ . |
| 10 | Now it has to be said that the people of that period could at least understand such notions as ‘ sacrifice ’ , ‘ propitiation ’ and ‘ atonement ’ . |
| 11 | On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on . |
| 12 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 13 | It has to be said that fox-hunters are not the least quarrelsome of Her Majesty 's subjects , but they are as mewling , puking , bairns when compared with church persons . |
| 14 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 15 | While Morris , undeservedly , shoulders the blame , it has to be said that without him Orrell would be a middle-of-the-road side , well served up front but without , say , the authority of Bath , the likely champions , behind the scrum . |
| 16 | Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature . |
| 17 | Similarly , if subjectivity and interiority are deemed to be essentially ‘ modernist ’ characteristics , then it has to be said that these are also challenged in a number of ways in novels such as Le Voyeur and L'Herbe . |
| 18 | Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends . |
| 19 | However , it has to be said that the British lag behind other European countries , particularly Germany , in this respect . |
| 20 | It has to be said that this is a massive walk , particularly for you if you do n't know Ted , and you could certainly fill a day with only these two peaks . |
| 21 | It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view . |
| 22 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 23 | Lest it be thought that the matriarchs are supreme in this artless craft of rendering service into an offensive act , it has to be said that the Glasgow cabbie is in a class of his own . |
| 24 | It hardly needs to be said that there is also a total rejection of moral principles . |
| 25 | It has to be said that the existence of self-help books , such as this one , is regarded as part of the problem by some doctors . |
| 26 | It has to be said that so much is there of interest within the new ‘ Denon Savoy ’ titles and — until stocks run out — in the largely parallel ‘ Vogue Savoy ’ catalogue , that at this time there is little point making too much of which is ‘ better ’ or ‘ worse ’ . |
| 27 | It needs to be said that some handicapped readers ( brain-damaged or retarded ) can fully enjoy books : we have the lesson of Cushla as an inspiration here ( Butler , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 29 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 30 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |