Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] say [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be said also that both the 1954 church as the 1976 halls owned a tremendous amount to the generosity of the Rank Trust . |
| 2 | Certainly the raw readings are low , and it must be said here that the last significant figure was obtained by estimating a proportion of a division on the scale . |
| 3 | Some people think that Jesus still meant death in the sense that it might be said today that a person had ‘ fallen asleep ’ when they had died . |
| 4 | Alternatively it may be said bluntly that in all cases of intimidation , whatever the nature of the threatened act , C's cause of action is wholly independent of B's . |
| 5 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 6 | The rational approach would be to say candidly that the question , being legislative , must be settled with the help of the policy implicit in the Act , or by reference to convenience or social requirements or generally accepted principles of fairness . |
| 7 | It will be said perhaps that I should have combined some principle of conduct with propositions about the flavours . |
| 8 | Or , to put it in another way , there must be at least two non-synonymous descriptive phrases of which it can be said both that they are co-extensive in respect of the given non-meaning and characterise this non-meaning in an essential way . |
| 9 | The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence . |