Example sentences of "must be said " in BNC.

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1 In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day .
2 It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ .
3 ( It must be said that the RTOA also contributed to its own downfall , by failing to get a grip on in-fighting among its own members . )
4 However , it must be said that true danseurs nobles and classiques are rare .
5 Meninga , it must be said , did not look like a man under undue pressure as he genially fended press questions yesterday , even laughing off a suggestion from one of his braver interlocuters that his weight had recently ballooned .
6 It must be said , however , that this is a nightmare scenario which the Government does not subscribe to .
7 Perhaps the number of thinly-disguised character studies in modern fiction , from Molly Keane to Emma Tennant , are a better tribute to her than anything else , not all of them flattering , it must be said .
8 It must be said however , that they are infinitely more cautious than their predecessors , and on the whole with good reason .
9 When most people of her age are just setting their first tentative steps on the bottom rung of life 's ladder , Radio One 's most successful — and , it must be said , best-looking — female disc jockey is riding high .
10 A convoluted plot , it must be said , but a really tough-guy read .
11 It must be said that our test tractor was fresh off the stocks , so fuel consumption may improve as the engine loosens up .
12 However , it must be said that our test tractor was one of the first to come into Germany , so perhaps some early trim problems are to be expected .
13 Of course it must be said that many people ca n't wait to leave their schooldays behind and so not all losses are to be regretted .
14 Put like this it seems extremely cold and unfeeling , but it must be said that if we were all to make our own arrangements without any order or form then chaos would quickly result .
15 Indeed , at the risk of causing offence , it must be said that in response to such a comment I have heard more than one distraught person say , with a puzzled look , ‘ is that a pub around here then ? ,
16 It must be said that Cardus 's review expressed the reservation that there was , perhaps , some sameness of carriage and accent in each of the three performances , whether it was the First Symphony , the Seventh , or the Apollonian Fourth ( a reading Karajan later modified ) ; but his review characteristically paints a picture , sets the scene for the absent reader :
17 This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage .
18 It must be said that Qaddafi 's account of nations lacks clarity .
19 There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view .
20 If this is to identify a Warwickshire weakness , it must be said that the 1991 season exceeded all predictions .
21 However , it must be said that this paper is not an attempt to cast management in an entirely negative light and then to oppose that with an equally ‘ rosy ’ view of professionalism — with the implication that management must recede and that professionalism should advance .
22 If Freemantle portrayed Leapor as relatively docile , it must be said that the poet occasionally adopted obsequious postures herself .
23 There are newspapers and posters , photographs and mementoes but it must be said that a lack of Italian language will limit the appeal of the collection .
24 It must be said on James 's behalf that he refrained from doing so .
25 So far in this discussion the emphasis has been on the voluntary nature of the ‘ obligations ’ of the active citizen , which is to be encouraged through the educational system and in other ways about which , it must be said , there is fairly broad agreement across the political spectrum .
26 As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder .
27 ‘ I like being in the kitchen — it 's my domain , ’ says Sheila , who , it must be said , does look more at home behind a microphone than a mixing bowl .
28 In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse .
29 It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve .
30 While football hooliganism is not solely an ‘ English disease ’ , to be an English supporter at a match abroad clearly has a powerful image that attracts many young fans , an image which sees local fans and passers-by retreating in terror , and which has , it must be said , little to do with the achievements of the English football team itself .
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