Example sentences of "[adv] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 2 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 3 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 4 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 5 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 6 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 7 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 8 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 9 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 10 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 11 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 12 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 13 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 14 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 15 | It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It will perhaps be said that , although there may be no inherent difficulty in establishing criteria of relevance to choices of means , the vagueness of ‘ Be aware ’ for choices of ends reduces it to meaninglessness as our proposed ‘ first principle ’ . |
| 18 | John Barber , in the Daily Telegraph , described Crawford as ‘ a winsome young comedian who recalls Harold Lloyd ’ and his performance as ‘ a continual delight ’ but added , ‘ It should perhaps be said that there is nothing pornographic in the show — nor , I am afraid , much wit or natural jollity . |
| 19 | However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target . |
| 20 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 21 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 22 | It can thus be said that the programmer , rather than the user , dictates the form of the final design . |
| 23 | Consent may thus be said to require not merely a knowledge of the physical facts of sexual intercourse but some elementary appreciation of the significance of the act in its biological , social and moral context . |
| 24 | It should thus be said that any incident which involves , either directly or indirectly , Hamlet himself , is connected with ‘ the main purpose of the play ’ . |
| 25 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 26 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 27 | Brown — scarcely — can scarcely be said to match fair hair . |
| 28 | The case caused much discussion especially as it could scarcely be said that his activity was directly connected with his duties as a judge . |
| 29 | Indeed , the path ahead could scarcely be said to exist . |
| 30 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |