Example sentences of "[adv] be say in " in BNC.
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1 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
2 | Whereas a person involved in the American Mafia could say , quite reasonably , ‘ what 's all the fuss about , we only kill each other ’ , the same could not be said in defence of some corporate crimes . |
3 | Within these limits , which can not be said in a free society possessing elective legislative institutions to be narrow or constrained , judges , as the remarkable judicial career of Lord Denning himself shows , have a genuine creative role . |
4 | In housing , inequalities in basic standards have narrowed but the same can not be said in relation to the social standards of housing . |
5 | So that can hardly be said in itself to constitute an intolerable situation . ’ |
6 | If A lacks the legal capacity to transfer the opportunity by his own act to anyone but is in a position by persuasion to procure B , who has the opportunity , to transfer it to C , can A properly be said in this way to provide C with the opportunity indirectly ? |
7 | Talking around the subject and not coming directly to the point ; saying in 30 words what might equally be said in 10 . |