Example sentences of "may be say [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to .
2 It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it .
3 We should remember that he does not claim definitely to be refuting the Aristotelians , but merely to be pointing out what may be said against them .
4 ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’
5 We need to hear what the Lord may be saying to us in all of this and be open to the challenge of church planting and the support of other fellowships around us .
6 Enough is enough , the president may be saying in his book and on the screen .
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