Example sentences of "be said as " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If |
2 | ‘ If |
3 | Thus the sentence ‘ The price is going up ’ can be said as a statement like this : The price is going up ( the tonic stress could equally well be on ‘ up ’ ) . |
4 | ft was said as a joke , and Dana and I laughed , but it left me frightened . |
5 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
6 | It was said as a joke , but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin 's face , he might have thought the warning was a necessary one . |