Example sentences of "[adv] been said " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 2 | It had all been said on the track where both McLaren 's new MP4/7As , driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger , were non-finishers . |
| 3 | The thing that concerns me , as I go about describing , for the Nth time , the world 's most famous electric guitar , is that it 's all been said before . |
| 4 | The object of the exercise is to move the debate forward to another place where another group of individuals will also have a free vote and it 's quite rightly been said . |
| 5 | This account of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages may have been rather weighted towards the political , and perhaps , given the political complexion of the discussion , it may be surprising to many readers that more has not been said about the papacy . |
| 6 | Both women wished that this had not been said . |
| 7 | What is there to say er what 's not been said already yesterday , today , last year 's meetings and in the last ten years . |
| 8 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 9 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 10 | With the consumer industry and media boffins jamming up behind one another to support the unquestionably fine ideals of conservation , one can only wish that they would ask themselves as they prepare to board one more rolling bandwagon whether they really have anything to add to what has already been said . |
| 11 | Something has already been said as to the assignment of ordinary debts and ‘ choses in action' ; and the law relating to negotiable instruments — bills of exchange , cheques , and promissory notes — will be dealt with in the next chapter . |
| 12 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 13 | What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work . |
| 14 | Much has already been said to help you evaluate the importance of each symptom . |
| 15 | The clause cited from the will , however , is not a pure example of a trust clause , for its purpose is not purely to confirm in trust form what has already been said in civil-law terms . |
| 16 | One family is , as has already been said , a Quaker family ; another family belongs to the Church of Scotland , and one family is Baptist . |
| 17 | Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text . |
| 18 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 19 | Implicit in what has already been said is the inescapable fact that many old people have , by reason of physical frailty , a degree of enforced dependence which is unwelcome . |
| 20 | This is not merely a matter of re-stating what had already been said ; it involves a genuine progress and advance towards a fuller and clearer understanding enabled by the onward movement of history . |
| 21 | From what has already been said it is possible to gain a rough understanding of the second and third of these claims . |
| 22 | The main mass and requiem mass had already been said in the RC Church in Notting Hill . |
| 23 | But at least people know what has already been discovered , what has already been said twenty or fifty or seventy years ago . |
| 24 | It is worth emphasizing what has already been said or implied , that all seven of the connections at which we have looked , and the further subordinate ones at which we shall not look , are indeed objective connections , connections in reality . |
| 25 | This last co-ordinate specifically enables the hearer to interpret what is said in the light of what has already been said . |
| 26 | Sometimes we do not even need to provide a substitute for a word or phrase which has already been said . |
| 27 | These words may simply add more information to what has already been said ( and , furthermore , add to that ) or elaborate or exemplify it ( for instance , thus , in other words ) . |
| 28 | the commentary must say for the first time what had , nonetheless , already been said [ by the original text ] and must tirelessly repeat what had never been said [ by other commentators ] . |
| 29 | Much has already been said here about the activity of listening by the congregation . |
| 30 | Much has already been said that has a bearing upon the underlying significance of the environment . |