Example sentences of "be say [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 3 | In the case of some evangelical writers ( though not Barth ) it may also be said that male dominance is fundamental to creation and found in all known human societies . |
| 4 | Let it be said that committed , monogamous gays and non-gays have also been victims . |
| 5 | It must be said that continental discussions of some of these ideas read rather strangely , at least to the authors of this book . |
| 6 | The first point definitely implies the second , but it must be said that other mechanisms exist in the equations for introducing folds into the return maps , so that a similar transition is observed even for b-values which do not mean that increasing r involves passing through the spiral of Fig. 6.2 . |
| 7 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 8 | Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends . |
| 9 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 10 | With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests . |
| 11 | That 's how I see things evolving , er but it must be said that Russian statesmen have got to have this self restraint not to abuse those nuclear weapons just as the United States has had to . |
| 12 | However , it should be said that past costs can be useful in predicting future costs . |
| 13 | In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable . |
| 14 | Concluding this section , it can be said that manual workers not only suffer more from the costs and deprivations of the workplace than non-manual workers but they also receive lower compensation and rewards in terms of pay , fringe benefits and , in some instances , even of social security benefits . |
| 15 | However , it has to be said that local authorities on the whole frown on totting and many ban it outright so caution is advised . |
| 16 | But it must be said that multi-user computers can be slow at times if a large number of people are all trying to use the computer at once . |
| 17 | However , it must be said that true danseurs nobles and classiques are rare . |
| 18 | In terms of the aims set out in 1955 , it can be said that green belt policies have been fairly successful . |
| 19 | If German anti-Semitism was the ‘ bastard child of the union between German nationalism and Christian anti-Semitism ’ then it must also be said that German nationalism was the offspring of military ambition and industrialisation . |
| 20 | It must be said that Scottish Amicable 's own version of ‘ JR ’ along with his side kick ‘ I always watch Coronation Street while eating my tea ’ Hunter are totally enthralled with the marketing potential of the whole concept ! |
| 21 | But it should perhaps be said that amateur boxers often avoid the excesses and the injuries of their professional colleagues , and the likes of Dick MacTaggart is a monument to sportsmanlike behaviour . |
| 22 | One would then not be saying that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life but that one has a certain belief to the effect that it does not do so . |
| 23 | A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling . |
| 24 | Another way of putting this would be to say that scientific culture was remarkably wide . |