Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [modal v] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 2 | But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability . |
| 3 | A detailed discussion of such clauses is beyond the scope of this chapter , but it should be said that the case law shows that use of such clauses to provide security in the event of failure to pay the purchase price is surrounded with many pitfalls . |
| 4 | Put like this it seems extremely cold and unfeeling , but it must be said that if we were all to make our own arrangements without any order or form then chaos would quickly result . |
| 5 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 6 | There are newspapers and posters , photographs and mementoes but it must be said that a lack of Italian language will limit the appeal of the collection . |
| 7 | Many teachers try to compile their own programmed texts , but it must be said that this takes a great deal of time to prepare . |
| 8 | But it must be said that the historian 's task is substantially simplified by the transformation . |
| 9 | There is a Breed Society for every breed of goat in the U.K. but it must be said that the evaluation of male goats lags way behind that of bulls . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it must be said that , even with the best garden centres , the range of herbs is not great , and consists mostly of the culinary type . |
| 12 | Starting was as fraught as ever or even more so because of large craft wanting to come through the start line but it must be said that the cruiser operators were generally very cooperative throughout the race . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it must be said that both Liverpool and Everton have cause to be grateful for the Moores ' family millions . |
| 15 | It is true that the acceptance of computing is still greater in research rather than teaching , but it must be said that the latter holds great potential , some of which , hopefully , will be unleashed through the injection of much-needed resources via schemes such as the Computers in Teaching Initiative ( CTI ) and the Teaching and Learning Training Project ( TLTP ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My opinion at the time was that Saunders had committed the foul , but it must be said that there appeared nothing malicious about the way he attempted to gain possession . |
| 19 | Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |
| 22 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |
| 23 | The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence . |
| 24 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |