Example sentences of "[be] said [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 2 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 3 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 4 | It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal . |
| 5 | It has been said that Peter 's military and naval staff headquarters were almost Scottish institutions . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers . |
| 8 | It has been said that Ian McShane has a footballer 's haircut , but in fact what he now has is a football manager 's haircut . |
| 9 | IT HAS been said that Glasgow only really welcomes an incomer if they have built a ship . |
| 10 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 11 | It may also be said that Caldwell is concerned with foresight of consequences , whereas Morgan is concerned with knowledge of circumstances . |
| 12 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 13 | It must be said that Qaddafi 's account of nations lacks clarity . |
| 14 | It must be said that Cardus 's review expressed the reservation that there was , perhaps , some sameness of carriage and accent in each of the three performances , whether it was the First Symphony , the Seventh , or the Apollonian Fourth ( a reading Karajan later modified ) ; but his review characteristically paints a picture , sets the scene for the absent reader : |
| 15 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |
| 16 | In fairness it has to be said that Levin tries to isolate Debord from a purely formal Modernism , and from naive realism ( the politics of the signified ) . |
| 17 | On the whole , it can be said that Coleman , in the circumstances , served the College , the profession and the country , well and that a balanced assessment , tending neither to adulation nor to denigration , is indicated . |
| 18 | Takamine 's experience in this field alone would recommend the EN 40C to many , although it must be said that Lowden , Ovation , Washburn and many other acoustics that we have reviewed in these pages recently provide stiff competition . |
| 19 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 20 | It could fairly be said that Mrs Thatcher won the economic argument . |
| 21 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 23 | Still less can it be said that Jesus had a feminist interpretation of social realities . |
| 24 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
| 25 | Erm , to comparison with Peterborough 's particularly useful but it might be , must be said that Peterborough do have problems with at least three or four of the their community centres all the time , in fact have quite a substantial budget on er staff involved in sorting out problems with voluntary managed community centres . |
| 26 | In acknowledgement of British decency , it must be said that Gandhi possessed the supreme advantage in his campaigns of knowing that , so long as he confined his activities to non-violent protest , he was not risking death at the hands of the authorities . |
| 27 | It must also be said that Herbert Casson 's admiration for youth could outbid even Baden-Powell 's undying romanticism : For page upon page , across three issue of Teacher 's World , Herbert Casson went on like this , at the same unrelenting pace . |
| 28 | For those who have not yet seen them , let it be said that Trestle work always in masks . |
| 29 | So it could be said that Michael Palin 's whose career went against what his father wished for him — All the more unforgivable because , unlike his father , he has followed ‘ my natural inclination ’ — and succeeded . |
| 30 | Madame Grimaud treated all this with brisk courtesy , remarking on one occasion that it could at least be said that Frederica was a good moral influence . |