Example sentences of "[modal v] be said [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be said at this stage that the case for regulation in any situation is weakened to the extent that the institutions which will themselves be involved are imperfect . |
| 2 | Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 4 | All scholars agree that the text of Boniface IV 's letter which is quoted here was a forgery of the eleventh century , and something must be said about this later . |
| 5 | For example , if the word ‘ what ’ is said on a rising tone , ‘ what ’ , it might have a pitch movement that could be diagrammed like this : The four syllables in ‘ , what did you say ’ might be said like this : with the pitch of the syllables in the tail getting progressively higher . |
| 6 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 7 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 8 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 9 | This edition was found to be inadequate in several respects , and the same could be said of all editions until the eighteenth . |
| 10 | He had courage , dignity and class , which was more than could be said of some of his judges . |
| 11 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 12 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 13 | The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter . |
| 14 | Much could be said about all these characteristics but of most significance for our purpose is the role of impartiality in relation to legislative and legal reasoning . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may be said of many palaeontologists , as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians : " Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present " . |
| 18 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |
| 19 | Both counsel and judges follow the punctilios of court procedure and conduct , and a few words may be said on these . |
| 20 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 21 | It also turns out that a single fibre can carry many signals at the same time ( more will be said about this in Part 10 ) . |
| 22 | More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al . |
| 23 | More will be said on that point later . |
| 24 | But more will be said of this ‘ delinquent fringe ’ later . |
| 25 | It will be said by many that there is no rational way of doing the job , and that the lobbying and jockeying , demeaning as they may be , are unavoidable . |
| 26 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 27 | In such a well studied and carefully recorded area , is there anything new that can be said about this Bronze Age landscape ? |
| 28 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to work for you , I 'm employed very nicely working for myself and the name of Morgan is respected already in town , which is more than can be said for that of the Grenfells . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’ |