Example sentences of "be say [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | " [ There is ] little to be said but in the way of commendation . |
| 2 | Indeed , at the risk of causing offence , it must be said that in response to such a comment I have heard more than one distraught person say , with a puzzled look , ‘ is that a pub around here then ? , |
| 3 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 4 | Each proprietary brand of locator has its accompanying transmitter and it must be said that in all four instances these work better if you use the manufacturer 's pairing rather than permutating among the ones available . |
| 5 | At the same time , he did embody his own message , so that it could be said that in him , ‘ the divine appeared in as pure a form as is possible on earth ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
| 8 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 9 | But it must be said that in some cases the DCSL who had overseen the ordering was uncertain as to where in the school the books had ended up , let alone their frequency of use . |
| 10 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |
| 11 | It should be said that in a nominally tideless sea where charterers ban night sailing and there is no need to go out of sight of land , dead reckoning backed up with fixes on prominent objects ashore will get you round nicely . |
| 12 | It could be said that in Western society religion has performed a considerable disservice by providing a more or less uniform system of social values — the Christian ethic . |
| 13 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 14 | Whilst it would be desirable to integrate information on our illustrations resources , it must be said that in its current incarnation IMAGES is too cumbersome and complex for data input , and is unacceptably slow for search and retrieval . |
| 15 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95·4 per cent of the time . |
| 16 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95.4 per cent of the time . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it might be said that in criminal law a company can authorise transactions only for its own benefit . |
| 18 | There are frequent statements to the same effect , especially in cases decided since the passing of the UCTA 1977 , but it must be said that in the past the courts have often disregarded such exhortations and adopted strained and artificial interpretations . |
| 19 | But what I will say — and it must be said because in Australia it has been put about that I sacked Middleton — Middleton , sadly , sacked himself . |