Example sentences of "be say [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least it can be said we were lively , we were an animated lot . |
| 2 | It used to be said there are a lot of very prosperous , very prosperous farmers round in Melton Mowbray . |
| 3 | It has to be said there is a lot that is queasily smug about this English answer to the US ‘ reunion ’ movie The Big Chill , substituting the products of Oxbridge Eighties ambition and greed for Sixties radicalism gone sour . |
| 4 | Particularly , you know it has to be said there is a particular age class background and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | It may well be that the decision of a particular valuer appointed might fix the price and might be equally satisfactory to both : so it can hardly be said there is a difference between them . |
| 6 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 7 | It can be said he was a victim of circumstances . |
| 8 | Simultaneously to starting a business , Louis started courting — and it can also be said he was piling-up a lot of trouble for himself . |
| 9 | It can be said he was addressing a captive audience … of stooges . |
| 10 | All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery . |
| 11 | They would be saying she was mad and her behaviour beyond their understanding . |
| 12 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 13 | ‘ Wo n't folk be saying it 's us , not Allan Lamb , who are bringing the game into disrepute by acting out a lie and covering up for Pakistan 's bowlers ? |