Example sentences of "be said as " in BNC.

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1	‘ If pours his wise consideration into politics as much as likes riding in his daily life , would not think that would have been said as two or three ministers ' politics by the public .
2	‘ If pours wise consideration into politics as much as likes riding in daily life , would not think that , would have been said as ‘ two three ministers ' politics ' by the public .
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 .

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