Example sentences of "have been said " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 2 | It has been said , by Dan Jacobson , that he ‘ aestheticises ’ his response to violence . |
| 3 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 4 | These books and plays and films reveal a humanity which surmounts , as has been said , the hardship and brutality they describe — surmounts it , as a rule , by laughing at it . |
| 5 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 6 | A lot has been said recently about the Ballerina series of trees . |
| 7 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 8 | Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said . |
| 10 | In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’ |
| 11 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 12 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 13 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 14 | Of my aunt herself has been said , ‘ She was always so patient ; and so kind to the little ones ; the kindest , sweetest person I ever knew . ’ |
| 15 | No word has been said about his fears for his sons . |
| 16 | If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said . |
| 17 | As will be clear from all that has been said so far , it seems that this short time is barely adequate for the person concerned to have dealt with all the issues involved in adjusting to the death of a loved one . |
| 18 | All that has been said earlier about the need to have time to take in bad news is obviously not appropriate . |
| 19 | It has been said that he understood the psychology of an orchestra better than almost any other conductor . |
| 20 | It has been said that we can regard ATP as a common currency which must be spent to provide energy whenever it is needed — to drive chemical reactions , to cause muscles to contract , or to pump substances across membranes . |
| 21 | His zeal has been said to border on the autocratic , especially on the sets of his films . |
| 22 | ENOUGH has been said about George Harrison and the Natural Law Party . |
| 23 | But it has been said before we should have professional referees — the sooner it 's sorted out the better . |
| 24 | Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD . |
| 25 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 26 | In the light of what has been said above about the nature of the relationships between managerial and professional processes in schools , the competency/threshold model currently being developed would seem to have little to offer in terms of meeting the need for a move towards holistic management processes . |
| 27 | This is the case of Austria , for instance , of which it has been said that ‘ banished to insignificant social roles , Austrian federalism has taken on something of a folklore quality ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed , it has been said that the north-west of Scotland has a higher sustained wind speed than any other inhabited part of the world ( Gloyne 1968 ) . |
| 29 | Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature . |
| 30 | It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers . |