Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
| 2 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 4 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |
| 6 | Which can not be said of Volcano Theatre 's gritty down-to-earth production of Steve Berkoff 's From My Point of View . |
| 7 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 8 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 9 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 10 | Within these limits , which can not be said in a free society possessing elective legislative institutions to be narrow or constrained , judges , as the remarkable judicial career of Lord Denning himself shows , have a genuine creative role . |
| 11 | She moves ( for example ) between speaking of the crucifixion of Christ ( fact ) to the cosmic nature of Christ — which can hardly be said to be ‘ true ’ in the sense of an empirically known fact . |
| 12 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |
| 13 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 14 | English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another . |
| 15 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 16 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 17 | In such a situation , the participants may , in fact , ‘ speak topically ’ , but they might also be said to be speaking on a topic . |
| 18 | Some of Freud 's patients became more rational in their understanding of their problems , and they could therefore be said to be nearer than non-patients to the standard Freud held up as worthy of human beings . |
| 19 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 20 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 21 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 22 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 23 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 24 | Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment . |
| 25 | Of course , it might still be said on behalf of the 1981 arrangements that making houses bid for bills , when buying or selling , is a genuine step towards market pricing of bills . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |
| 27 | It could also be said to be an example of the developed use of experienced laymen to assist in the determination of disputes . |
| 28 | Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial ! |
| 29 | However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less . |
| 30 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |