Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] be said in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say they believe that God was in some sense differently related to particular events , or may be said in particular to have revealed God 's self through those events , in a way in which this is not true of all other events or periods in history . |
| 2 | As far as the radically mentalist view is concerned , there is clearly very little that might be said in its favour . |
| 3 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 4 | One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities . |
| 5 | That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect . |
| 6 | Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , as would be said in cricket , a ‘ ball being bowled ’ . |