Example sentences of "[modal v] be said that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be said that in a nominally tideless sea where charterers ban night sailing and there is no need to go out of sight of land , dead reckoning backed up with fixes on prominent objects ashore will get you round nicely . |
| 2 | It must be said that as a matter of civil law the existence of an equitable proprietary interest is doubtful . |
| 3 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 4 | Indeed , at the risk of causing offence , it must be said that in response to such a comment I have heard more than one distraught person say , with a puzzled look , ‘ is that a pub around here then ? , |
| 5 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 6 | Each proprietary brand of locator has its accompanying transmitter and it must be said that in all four instances these work better if you use the manufacturer 's pairing rather than permutating among the ones available . |
| 7 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
| 8 | But it must be said that in some cases the DCSL who had overseen the ordering was uncertain as to where in the school the books had ended up , let alone their frequency of use . |
| 9 | Whilst it would be desirable to integrate information on our illustrations resources , it must be said that in its current incarnation IMAGES is too cumbersome and complex for data input , and is unacceptably slow for search and retrieval . |
| 10 | There are frequent statements to the same effect , especially in cases decided since the passing of the UCTA 1977 , but it must be said that in the past the courts have often disregarded such exhortations and adopted strained and artificial interpretations . |
| 11 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 12 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it might be said that in criminal law a company can authorise transactions only for its own benefit . |
| 14 | It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world . |
| 15 | At the same time , he did embody his own message , so that it could be said that in him , ‘ the divine appeared in as pure a form as is possible on earth ’ . |
| 16 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |
| 17 | It could be said that in Western society religion has performed a considerable disservice by providing a more or less uniform system of social values — the Christian ethic . |
| 18 | It could be said that by doing so he was simply in some way earning his living . |
| 19 | The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism . |
| 20 | However , at the outset it may be said that to some extent the political objective of requiring the Community legislative institutions to bear those considerations in mind would appear already to be being observed ; for example , Council Decision 92/421 on tourism policy expressly refers in its recitals to ‘ the need to comply with the subsidiarity principle ’ . |
| 21 | It may be said that in some cases , at least , such a tendency will show up in that species merely as itself — that is to say , as a merely biological character of that species . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 23 | In conclusion , it can be said that during accelerated intestinal transit , slow release preparations , except for Claversal 250 mg tablets , provide higher steady state mucosal concentrations than azo-bound drugs . |
| 24 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |