Example sentences of "[modal v] be said [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago . |
| 2 | It has been said that working in advertising will give you the most possible fun you can have with your clothes on , and the same might be said of sharedealing . |
| 3 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 4 | Most important of all was to know the Catechism , and they had to repeat it over and over until it could be said without faltering . |
| 5 | The same can be said of receiving intuitive aromatherapy massage from a friend . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 8 | Russia can not exist without the Ukrainian sugar industry , and the same can be said in regard to coal ( the Donbas ) , cereals ( the black earth belt ) , etc . |