Example sentences of "[modal v] be say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 2 | Al also the way we talk about it is very very sloppy , we often say A minus B when we should be saying plus A take away plus B. We start talking like that people he 's off again . |
| 3 | It must be said on James 's behalf that he refrained from doing so . |
| 4 | The same must be said of access to capital . |
| 5 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 6 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 7 | As much might be said for members of her cabinet . |
| 8 | The same might be said of Giscard d'Estaing 's less populist party , the ‘ Union pour la Democratie Française ’ . |
| 9 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 10 | Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times . |
| 11 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 12 | Version ( i ) might be said in conversation on hearing someone 's name , as in this example : A : John Cleese is a very funny actor . |
| 13 | Some of that evidence , it might be said in parenthesis , appears to be adverse to the appellants . |
| 14 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 15 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 16 | The same could be said for Belgium . |
| 17 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 18 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 19 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 20 | The same could be said for Christianity . |
| 21 | Which was more than could be said for Geoff Tulloch . |
| 22 | Which was more than could be said for Mr Gittings , the decorator . |
| 23 | How , theoretically , this connection could be said to work was rarely explained . |
| 24 | Still , a Government lately inclined to talk nostalgically about communities might well reflect on whether the actions of a Timex could be said to mesh well with the interests or values of a community which has long afforded the company a secure base and a loyal workforce . |
| 25 | The fundamental problem faced by the preliminary fact doctrine is that in an everyday sense all the elements relating to X , or , to X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , could be said to condition jurisdiction . |
| 26 | Legion led Ace into it with a certain swagger , if a green balloon trailing pink strands could be said to swagger . |
| 27 | The same could be said of Sparta and her internal relations ( which as we saw affected external relations too ) . |
| 28 | The same could be said of America 's Mr Bowe as heavyweight champion until he split his unified title by throwing the WBC belt in a dustbin and fighting a clumsy challenger , Michael Dokes . |
| 29 | The same could be said of England ‘ B ’ because , apart from the regular England XV , many others — e.g. Redman , Robinson , Rodber , Pears , Hill , Hall , Heslop and Oti — were n't considered or available . |
| 30 | Nothing better could be said of poetry than that . |