Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be said that Caldwell is concerned with foresight of consequences , whereas Morgan is concerned with knowledge of circumstances . |
| 2 | In the case of some evangelical writers ( though not Barth ) it may also be said that male dominance is fundamental to creation and found in all known human societies . |
| 3 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 4 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 5 | For the call to liberate the poor , it may well be said , is to be read directly out of scripture . |
| 6 | It may well be said that the patriarchal understanding of what it means to be male is abandoned . |
| 7 | He 's the best of the lot , I mean , it may not be saying a lot , |
| 8 | Similarly , women are not beyond attraction to a young boy , although it may probably be said that this is less often the case . |
| 9 | It may simply be said that it is just a ‘ fact ’ that Jesus was male , and that therefore priests should be . ) |
| 10 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 11 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | But it may now be said that , so far from being a depressing conclusion , this states precisely the practical importance of conventionalism for adjudication . |
| 14 | It may now be said , however , that a self-conscious conventionalist would indeed ponder over past doctrine in the way actual judges do , not for evidence of popular opinion but more directly , because any lawmaker must take care to make new law consistent with old . |
| 15 | ‘ It may safely be said that all good gardening consists in putting the right plant in the right place . ’ |
| 16 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 17 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 18 | It should also be said that people of influence , who have n't put it in writing , also openly agreed with the placing of a bolt . |
| 19 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 20 | It should also be said that marketing considerations can come into the calculations . |
| 21 | It should also be said that while he speaks of ‘ absolute dependence ’ , he does not mean to imply that we have no personal freedom or responsibility , that we are mere puppets in the hands of omnipotence . |
| 22 | It should also be said that marketing considerations can come into the calculation . |
| 23 | It should thus be said that any incident which involves , either directly or indirectly , Hamlet himself , is connected with ‘ the main purpose of the play ’ . |
| 24 | But it should perhaps be said that amateur boxers often avoid the excesses and the injuries of their professional colleagues , and the likes of Dick MacTaggart is a monument to sportsmanlike behaviour . |
| 25 | John Barber , in the Daily Telegraph , described Crawford as ‘ a winsome young comedian who recalls Harold Lloyd ’ and his performance as ‘ a continual delight ’ but added , ‘ It should perhaps be said that there is nothing pornographic in the show — nor , I am afraid , much wit or natural jollity . |
| 26 | It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure . |
| 27 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 28 | But it must also be said that Servan-Schreiber 's unwillingness to share the responsibility for management with the centre 's scientists contributed to their subsequent departures . |
| 29 | If German anti-Semitism was the ‘ bastard child of the union between German nationalism and Christian anti-Semitism ’ then it must also be said that German nationalism was the offspring of military ambition and industrialisation . |
| 30 | ( It must also be said that only about one in ten of the adult population in Britain in teetotal and it could be that at least some people in this group are unwell , rather than the other way round . ) |