Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] may be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense Patrick O'Brian may be said to offer two heroes , each capable both of influencing events and being affected by them . |
| 2 | A concise statutory definition of insider dealing is not offered in the CSA 1985 , but conduct constituting insider dealing may be said to exist where : an insider deliberately deals as principal or agent on a recognised exchange in securities of the company in question on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 3 | But policy makers may be said to have to ‘ pay for ’ a lessening of day-to-day control problems with concessions in the implementation process , professionalism tends to involve participation in the determination of policy outcomes . |
| 4 | Equally , speaker A may be said to use more of variant X in situation Y than in situation Z , rather than categorically to use X in either situation . |
| 5 | On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator . |
| 6 | Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children . |