Example sentences of "[noun pl] may be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | These exchanges may take the form of ‘ mock fighting ’ in which a clear set of rules may be said to operate . |
| 2 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 3 | Both counsel and judges follow the punctilios of court procedure and conduct , and a few words may be said on these . |
| 4 | ‘ The various shops may be said to form an inverted L , the southern arm following the railway towards London , while the western section is bounded by the Grand Junction Canal and the Stratford Road . |
| 5 | Well , but — so some readers may be saying or thinking — what about the content of these so numerous poems ? |
| 6 | Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children . |
| 7 | Any electronic drawing system that allows the designer to sketch , visualise and change plans or ideas may be said to offer CAD . |
| 8 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 9 | The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) . |
| 10 | Given the system , neither those parts nor those men may be said to have conditioned or influenced history . |
| 11 | Were it not for the material in the reports of Hansard to which your Lordships have been referred , I , too , would still be of that view , for although I recognise that in popular parlance with provision to one individual of a service which is , in any event , being provided for reward to many others may be said to cost the provider little or nothing , ‘ cost ’ in accountancy terms is merely a computation of outgoing expenditure without reference to receipts . |
| 12 | But policy makers may be said to have to ‘ pay for ’ a lessening of day-to-day control problems with concessions in the implementation process , professionalism tends to involve participation in the determination of policy outcomes . |
| 13 | In so far as this tendency brought with it loss of belief in survival , the Evangelicals may be said to have unintentionally contributed to the process . |