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

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1 It is in this complicated sense that misogyny and homophobia once more interconnect , and otherness may be said to inhere within the same .
2 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 .
3 If remembering that the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus keeps doctrinal formulation authentic , the same may be said for experience .
4 The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ .
5 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 .
6 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 " .
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