Example sentences of "may be say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever else may be said about Britain 's standing abroad , one indisputable fact , albeit a somewhat dubious distinction , is that , in the field of sexually transmitted diseases , this country leads the world . |
| 2 | Whatever may be said about Ecclesiastes — and many things have been said about him — he decried traditional wisdom . |
| 3 | The same may be said about loans at call to members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) . |
| 4 | However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless . |
| 5 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |
| 6 | It is in this complicated sense that misogyny and homophobia once more interconnect , and otherness may be said to inhere within the same . |
| 7 | This type of book may be said to ante-date the classical detective story , which we have called the template or original of most crime fiction . |
| 8 | If remembering that the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus keeps doctrinal formulation authentic , the same may be said for experience . |
| 9 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 10 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 11 | That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect . |
| 12 | However they decided the case on another basis and Pearson LJ said " it may be said in answer to the possibility of such a reductio ad absurdum , though no doubt , it has to be taken into account , is far from conclusive , because it may involve unlikely hypotheses , which would be outside the reasonable expectations of the parties at the time of the making of the contract of employment " . |