Example sentences of "[be] said that [det] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings .
2 It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses .
3 It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age .
4 It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns .
5 In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’
6 Equally , it has been said that half the ceiling structure and half the floor structure is included in a lease of the space between them ( Phelps v City of London Corporation [ 1916 ] 2 Ch 255 ) .
7 It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application .
8 Thus to those conservatives who , arguing against the ordination of women , contend that Jesus ordained no ‘ priestesses ’ , it must be said that neither did he ordain any priests !
9 There is no way in which it can be said that such-and-such an injury is worth so much in terms of money .
10 Of course it must be said that many people ca n't wait to leave their schooldays behind and so not all losses are to be regretted .
11 It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view .
12 ‘ It must be said that many Christian men still have a hard time seeing women 's issues as their issues too , ’ said Bishop Edmond Browning , Anglican Primate in the USA .
13 It has to be said that many of the BUF 's ‘ orators ’ would not be hard to improve upon .
14 It will be said that many lack the competence , or the vision , or the self-confidence ( for such critical inquiries turned on one 's own discipline can be unnerving ) .
15 It should be said that many of the problems which make quality control of elements of the course above subject level a challenge for modular courses are not a challenge for conventional courses only because insufficient comparability exists to make quality control a serious possibility .
16 As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder .
17 But can it be said that such a duty lies on individuals and groups ?
18 ( It should be said that such views often gained the support of feminists , particularly outraged by the forcible use of the speculum under the Contagious Diseases Acts . )
19 Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ?
20 Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence .
21 ‘ It may safely be said that all good gardening consists in putting the right plant in the right place . ’
22 It will be said that all this is long past , that academic institutions today are much more egalitarian in their evaluations and actions .
23 In the examples given , it needs to be said that all the people would qualify for advice and assistance and for full civil legal aid after 1 April , on the information given .
24 Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) .
25 And it can not be said that that is the union 's business as of generally recognised right to decide , or to share in deciding , that application .
26 Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions .
27 And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect .
28 ( 60 ) It may be said that few middle-class couples dare marry without this admirable handbook .
29 Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept .
30 Representing the Prussian general staff were the generals von Roon and von Moltke , and perhaps most importantly , Bismarck , who later described the occasion as a ‘ simple family dinner ’ , a description of which it could be said that those who believe it will believe anything .
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