Example sentences of "be said by " in BNC.

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1 It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control .
2 At this point the community adviser suggests narrowing the scope of the post but Chris Cousins , the Deputy Head Community , takes the opportunity to challenge what has been said by the other deputy when he remarks :
3 Indeed , it has been said by some professionals in the field that we are doing the students a disservice by attempting to break through their apathy since their main chance of happiness lies in their passive acceptance of traditional ‘ care ’ facilities .
4 In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do .
5 And has been said by several people who are here .
6 The Yes Minister television series obviously deals in caricature , yet it has been said by insiders to be alarmingly close to the realities of the British political system .
7 Then , the therapist can try to shape what has been said by introducing the notion that anxiety is made up of three separate components .
8 It has been said by the courts that there are good reasons of public policy to enforce such time-limits : public programmes ought not to be suspended or held up indefinitely for fear of a challenge at some later date .
9 Hoffmann J. [ 1991 ] B.C.C. 658 in his judgment on the hearing of the motion , referred to what had been said by Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. , sitting in the Court of Appeal in Cloverbay Ltd .
10 To the same effect was Rex v. Bland ( 1740 ) 7 Mod.Rep. 355 , and in 1794 in Rex v. Bishop of Ely , 5 Durn. & E. 475 Lord Kenyon C.J. regarded what had been said by Holt C.J. as settled law .
11 Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it .
12 Much of what has been said by Conservative Members today seems to be a rearguard attempt to protect the Home Secretary and his sinking reputation .
13 I accept everything that has been said by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the need for a stronger line against terrorism .
14 While behind-the-scenes the Americans were discussing remarks alleged to have been said by Gary Player .
15 We the union are the back-up system as been said by previous speakers .
16 Let's pick out what 's been said by our Conservative M Ps .
17 i will fill in a little on Frank 's ( at lot has already been said by the new norwegian on the list … ) performance later with excerpts from Dagbladet of yesterday .
18 I would , before passing on the next part of our programme , I would like to warmly thank Judy and Simon and Richard and Tony , not only for their presentations , their carefully thought out presentations to give us as broad a span as possible of how they see the priorities , what is happening at this time , but for everything else they do in leading their teams and initiating so many of the exchanges that take place , which adds so much , as has been said by , both by Judy and by other speakers , to carry N C V O forward .
19 I agree with a great deal that has been said by Mr .
20 My first rule of journalism goes back to something which was written down or reputed to have been said by H L Mencken , who was a , an American prize-winning journalist and commentator .
21 It is all in order because the proceedings start with a service conducted by the Anglican rural dean , at which the reading is by a member of the Free Churches , and where prayers are said by a Jesuit .
22 Heroin labs are said by Afghans to be in the Chagool mountains , operated by fundamentalist mujahedin commanders belonging to the Hizbe Islami .
23 The morning rays are said by yogis to be highly charged with prana ( life-force ) and are the most beneficial to health .
24 And molecules like this , amino acids are other examples , are said by structural chemists to have a ‘ chirality ’ , from the Greek word for hand .
25 Meanwhile , reports that Novell is planning a multi-server version of its IPX software router in order to provide companies with a low-cost alternative to software routers are said by the company to be ‘ very misleading ’ .
26 Their options business , normally for underlying amounts of DM10m-20m a day , are said by others to have jumped to ten times that amount .
27 For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women .
28 A world of gently impending walls and grades of French & Brigand d'Amour and Symphonie du Nouveau Monde are said by my partner Johny Adams to be excellent 7as , but there are more than a dozen others ( up to 8b ) to try .
29 Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric .
30 How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers .
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