Example sentences of "[be] said [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a lot to say Mr Chairman , I think it 's all been said one way or the other . |
| 2 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 3 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 4 | As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book . |
| 5 | It 's already been said this morning they are entitled to a voice and therefore we need to retain er , a separate trade union membership . |
| 6 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 7 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 8 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 9 | AS NEWLY-formed TV AM said Good Morning Britain , those likely lads Clement and Le Frenais waved goodbye to Blighty , and threw a disparate gang of regional archetype brickies together in Dusseldorf for good-humoured , working class comic-drama on-site . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It could be said that scripture 's view of the Devil and the evil spirits is mythological . |
| 12 | I am satisfied that it can not be said that section 6(2) is unworkable if the words of that provision are given their wide general meaning . |
| 13 | But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of the things that were said last Sunday were the most severe I 've heard in my life . |
| 15 | It is said that Sun 's SunSelect , the unit that picked up WABI when it acquired Norwood , Massachusetts-based Praxsys Technologies Inc , has already received a letter from Microsoft complaining that WABI violates its intellectual property rights . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's the nicest thing anybody 's said all week . |
| 17 | ‘ Graham has made it perfectly clear he does n't want to go to the West Indies next winter — but he 's said those sort of things before about touring and has ended up going . ’ |
| 18 | Now that was said many years ago |
| 19 | It was said that Warrant 's last album — also their first ‘ Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich ’ — was made without them . |
| 20 | It was said that Warrant 's last album — also their first ‘ Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich ’ — was made without them . |
| 21 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 22 | Adml Kasatonov was said last night to be in hospital with high blood pressure . |
| 23 | Kemp was released after treatment but Raynsford was kept in and was said last night to be ‘ comfortable ’ . |
| 24 | The 49-year-old Rolling Stone wined and dined the sultry millionaire model at the French mansion behind Jerry 's back , it was said last night . |
| 25 | She was said last night to be out of intensive care and making progress . |
| 26 | Erm that being the case , if if those objections were were sustained , er you know , going back to what was was said last week , then I think Selby might be in difficulties in in meeting its housing requirement . |
| 27 | Well that was said last week it was going up . |
| 28 | ‘ It has to do with what was said last time I was here . ’ |
| 29 | Now I love the Labour Party and a lot of what was said this morning was painful . |