Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or w w shall we say that may be said with a bit of a tongue in cheek ? |
| 2 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 3 | This may be said to be the effect of his thought that probably there are no decent seats left . |
| 4 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 5 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 6 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 7 | As much might be said for members of her cabinet . |
| 8 | Something similar might be said of the following : ( 192 ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 9 | If the Fourth Symphony to some extent thrives on Brüggen 's extrovert approach , the Pastoral could be said to be diminished by it . |
| 10 | The relationship with humans may be such that plants are no longer clearly ‘ wild ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , the forests including several ‘ cultigens ’ like the betel nut or Uncaria gambir ( Rubiaceae ) , an important tan source in Asia ; similar could be said of the date in north Africa and Arabia . |
| 11 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 12 | Perhaps this much can be said without suggesting that the book is an epic for Kenya Asians , which tells of a people threatened by nobodies , nothings , and managing to survive . |
| 13 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 14 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 19 | ( Stimulus A of fig. 5.10 might be said to be enriched , if only a little , by virtue of its ability to evoke the image of X. ) The differentiation theory , in contrast , holds that ‘ percepts change over time by progressive elaboration of qualities , features and dimensions of variation ’ ( Gibson and Gibson 1955 , p. 34 ) , that is , by an elaboration of aspects of the stimulus that are present in it from the outset . |
| 20 | Before doing so , a little will be said of the character of logic and deductive reasoning . |
| 21 | Nothing better could be said of poetry than that . |
| 22 | While all could be said to be right-wing , their sympathies were not identical where other countries were concerned . |
| 23 | However , it does not follow from this that there is nothing in an animal 's head , or that nothing useful can be said about it . |
| 24 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 25 | Type 7 His book covers most that need be said on the subject . |
| 26 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 27 | It shows that something more must be said about what a convention is , about how much and what kind of agreement is necessary in order that a particular proposition of law can be true in virtue of a particular legal convention . |
| 28 | Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful . |
| 29 | Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here . |
| 30 | An example of the fixed charge is the mortgage and no more need be said about it here . |