Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be said that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 2 | It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral . |
| 3 | It may be said that the social work of the cinema is to naturalized certain sense of individual subjectivity by producing cinema-viewing as a timeless and abundant experience . |
| 4 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 5 | It may be said that we have to plan for the future , and I entirely agree , but most of our thoughts can be best described as nonsense . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 7 | As the leading Ramsay scholar Alistair Smart has written , after 1754 , ‘ It may be said that where Ramsay previously coloured , now he tints . ’ |
| 8 | Hence it may be said that ‘ health service inflation ’ has risen faster than inflation in the rest of the economy . |
| 9 | In conclusion it may be said that the structure of the spirit world constitutes both a model of and a model for the larger social system in which the Buid are embedded . |
| 10 | However , ‘ it may be said that … because one thing may be the sole evidence of the existence of another thing , it does not follow that the two are one and the same . |
| 11 | It may be said that a sensation of heat in the hand is not really an impression as of our hand being hot , but is simply something that we normally happen to get when our hand heats up . |
| 12 | In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable . |
| 13 | It may be said that in some cases , at least , such a tendency will show up in that species merely as itself — that is to say , as a merely biological character of that species . |
| 14 | It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all . |
| 15 | As against this , it may be said that it is psychologically impossible ( or perhaps impossible in some stronger logical sense ) to retain either beliefs or attitudes of which the inconsistency has become manifest to one . |
| 16 | Summing up the Japanese impact on Korea , it may be said that efficient but harsh administration was provided ; economic progress was promoted yet in a distorted way , designed to benefit the colonial master . |
| 17 | In general it may be said that ‘ Cromwell 's decade ’ saw a doubling of the ordinary revenue of the Crown — though it also saw an increased expenditure , especially on the household , administration , defence , and Ireland . |
| 18 | The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism . |
| 19 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 20 | Again it may be said that though prophets and priests in the bible are male , there is no reason why women should not be ordained or exercise leadership today . |
| 21 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 22 | It may be said that , although he survived it , the siege nevertheless had a bad effect on the Collector . |
| 23 | It may be said that , over many years , I have seldom known cases of marital difficulty in which sexual difficulty did not lie in the background ; but , equally , I have seldom known marriages where a major relationship difficulty has not had its effect on the satisfactions of sex . |
| 24 | As a beginning , it may be said that the conception of a lexical unit which will be adopted here is not very different from that of a traditional lexicographer , although we shall try to be more explicit than lexicographers are wont to be . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 26 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 27 | It may be said that this is tyranny . |
| 28 | If Wheare 's definitions are applied to the United Kingdom , it may be said that there is an unwritten constitution in the sense that it is uncodified . |
| 29 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 30 | It may be said that these facts are materially different from those in our problem , for in our problem there seems to be no choice as to who is to die : it is simply ( one supposes ) a question of some or all . |