Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [be] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or w w shall we say that may be said with a bit of a tongue in cheek ? |
| 2 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 3 | This may be said to be the effect of his thought that probably there are no decent seats left . |
| 4 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 5 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 6 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 7 | As much might be said for members of her cabinet . |
| 8 | Perhaps this much can be said without suggesting that the book is an epic for Kenya Asians , which tells of a people threatened by nobodies , nothings , and managing to survive . |
| 9 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 10 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 11 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 12 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 13 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 14 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 15 | While all could be said to be right-wing , their sympathies were not identical where other countries were concerned . |
| 16 | Type 7 His book covers most that need be said on the subject . |
| 17 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 18 | It shows that something more must be said about what a convention is , about how much and what kind of agreement is necessary in order that a particular proposition of law can be true in virtue of a particular legal convention . |
| 19 | Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful . |
| 20 | Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here . |
| 21 | An example of the fixed charge is the mortgage and no more need be said about it here . |
| 22 | More will be said on that point later . |
| 23 | More will be said on the discrepancies between the workshop and Hemingway versions in the following section , where some further explanations will be offered as to why such dissimilarities occur . |
| 24 | But more will be said of this ‘ delinquent fringe ’ later . |
| 25 | It is to be allowed then , although something more will be said of the matter ( 1.6 ) , that we have two conceptions . |
| 26 | Something more will be said of the matter , however . |
| 27 | A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals . |
| 28 | More will be said of its proposals in the next chapter on the houses of the great , but , as a sample of Pugin 's diagnosis , the small print of his satiric illustration , ‘ dedicated , without permission , to THE TRADE ’ , repays examination ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 29 | Much more will be said of the houses of the poor in chapter 3 , but the basic contrast can be readily tested — one has only to compare the range of interiors in the novels of Richardson or Jane Austen with the range in almost any one of Dickens 's novels . |
| 30 | More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al . |