Example sentences of "that [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or w w shall we say that may be said with a bit of a tongue in cheek ? |
| 2 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 3 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 4 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 5 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 6 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 7 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 8 | Type 7 His book covers most that need be said on the subject . |
| 9 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 10 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 11 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 13 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 14 | The best that can be said for Manne 's argument is that as the risks of insider dealing increase , ‘ not trading ’ trading may become more popular . |
| 15 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 16 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 17 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 18 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 19 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 21 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 22 | There is much that can be said about the advantages of such a strategy , which is flexible and which can penetrate secular buildings with the salt of the gospel touching the lives of many who otherwise have no contact with the church . |
| 23 | The best that can be said about marriage laws is that some of the variation may be explained along the lines proposed here . |
| 24 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 25 | There seems to be little that can be said about things which are familiar to writer and reader alike . |
| 26 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |