Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure , but the best thing is if I know everything , then I can judge how much has to be said to Mother Clare . ’ |
| 3 | But first , something has to be said about consciousness and intentions , because in everyday life we interpret our own behaviour in these terms , and it seems natural to do the same for animals . |
| 4 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 5 | For this reason alone , something has to be said about the predominance of the female nude in European art from the mid-19th century . |
| 6 | Guillaume ( 1984 : 120ff ) shows that all substantives , adjectives , adverbs and verbs are inherently predicative because they bring to mind a lexical notion which has to be said about something in order for the word to perform its function in discourse . |
| 7 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 8 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |
| 9 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |
| 10 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 11 | The magazine Field and Stream published this delightfully tongue-in-cheek review which says all that needs to be said about innocence and incorruptibility : |
| 12 | More needs to be said about our conviction , but here we have something . |
| 13 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 14 | But there is one more thing at least that needs to be said about it . |
| 15 | If it were possible to compile a complete list of the basic propositions needed to say everything that essentially needs to be said about the world , existential propositions would not be among them . |
| 16 | Before we look at the separate groups and the new pope 's treatment of them , more needs to be said about poverty and preaching . |
| 17 | One paragraph on rainforest conservation , for example , could be quoted more widely — it says all that needs to be said in 15 eloquent lines . |
| 18 | Chair , I I think what needs to be said in this debate is something positive about the work that has come out of particularly Highfields , er and indeed to some extent Moat , in the past . |
| 19 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |