Example sentences of "[be] said [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been said that private companies can be enticed into investment in eastern Europe , as in the deal whereby BSN of France and Nestle of Switzerland bought a stake in Czech confectioner Chakoladnovy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 6 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 7 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 8 | It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Summing up the Japanese impact on Korea , it may be said that efficient but harsh administration was provided ; economic progress was promoted yet in a distorted way , designed to benefit the colonial master . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 16 | In the case of some evangelical writers ( though not Barth ) it may also be said that male dominance is fundamental to creation and found in all known human societies . |
| 17 | Let it be said that committed , monogamous gays and non-gays have also been victims . |
| 18 | There is no way in which it can be said that such-and-such an injury is worth so much in terms of money . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | It has to be said that many of the BUF 's ‘ orators ’ would not be hard to improve upon . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It must be said that continental discussions of some of these ideas read rather strangely , at least to the authors of this book . |
| 26 | Indeed it might be said that one year on this course is worth four or five years of experience in the field . |
| 27 | The first point definitely implies the second , but it must be said that other mechanisms exist in the equations for introducing folds into the return maps , so that a similar transition is observed even for b-values which do not mean that increasing r involves passing through the spiral of Fig. 6.2 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But can it be said that such a duty lies on individuals and groups ? |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |