Example sentences of "said [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank issues 85 p.c. of the colony 's banknotes and runs the local clearing house — roles which an official from the Bank of China recently said are incompatible with regulation from London . |
| 2 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 3 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 4 | All the things that Helen and Joanna had said were true , but Dawn 's words cast a blight on the feelings of gratitude she ought to have . |
| 5 | She remembered Hitler 's eyes which Mrs Parvis had once said were hypnotic . |
| 6 | For the nation , what is being said is that unprecedented revival is coming and exceeding any ever seen before . |
| 7 | All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is . |
| 8 | The most that can be said is that S.I.B . |
| 9 | For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty . |
| 10 | The best that can be said is that to appeal to such a wide diversity of patrons he clearly possessed some very rare talent indeed . |
| 11 | What is said is that mention was made of the ‘ so-calledrevolt of certain ministers ’ . |
| 12 | Whether this justifies the conclusion of Esther Moir that " The most that can be said is that on and off the bench , the Justices interposed between the parish overseer and his helpless victim " is uncertain . |
| 13 | Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you |
| 14 | I mean , I think one , the first thing to be said is that one can assure members covering all the other C A B's was that they actually got their bids in full . |
| 15 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 16 | Part of the process of analysing discourse in terms of ‘ topic ’ is an attempt to make explicit the basis for our intuitive ability to recognise why what is said is appropriate in a particular discourse fragment . |
| 17 | I think that both governments are aware of the proposals that emerged from th my dialogue with Mr Addams , and the process that has emerged , that I have said , and he has said is substantial progress towards lasting peace . |
| 18 | Doubtless you will find yourself in positions where what I 've said is worse than useless , and facing foes who have thought of tricks I would never have dreamed of . |
| 19 | Do n't just listen and then go away without first checking that your interpretation of what the person has said is accurate . |
| 20 | What the hon. Lady has just said is astonishing . |
| 21 | Is n't there an argument , and perhaps I am st getting now onto two , matter two , that says from Hambledon 's point of view , what has just been said is compelling , is a compelling argument in favour of identifying where the new settlement should go , because that will , at the same time , identify where it should not go ? |
| 22 | Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community . |
| 23 | So what is said is this . |
| 24 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 25 | ‘ But , ’ I replied , ‘ if any of what we have said is true , why does Queen Margaret grieve over the corpse of an imposter ? |
| 26 | ‘ And if what you 've said is kosher , then somewhere there 'll be a bank of phones for him to do his dirty dealing on . |
| 27 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 28 | All that remains to be said is Happy Christmas and good wishes for a New Knitting Year ! |
| 29 | What Seaby had said was good , Cizek said , was like a decorator painting a door . |
| 30 | District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue . |