Example sentences of "be said that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 2 | It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job . |
| 3 | It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts . |
| 4 | To continue with the floral metaphor , it could be said that researchers must search the fully flowered attitudinal stances of this year for the seeds of next year 's crop . |
| 5 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |
| 6 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 7 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
| 8 | By this stage it could fairly be said that women had gained a footing in the Edinburgh book-houses . |
| 9 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 10 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 11 | But it need hardly be said that voters sometimes disappoint candidates and campaign managers . |
| 12 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 13 | Without engaging in speculation , it can be said that relationships of this type might have acted as a channel for ideas and opinions and represented a means by which influence could be exerted . |
| 14 | It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water . |
| 15 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 16 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 17 | It is n't quite wrong , Bill , for it to be said that Councils should be spending up to their capped level . |
| 18 | It has to be said that fox-hunters are not the least quarrelsome of Her Majesty 's subjects , but they are as mewling , puking , bairns when compared with church persons . |
| 19 | It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district . |
| 20 | In archaeology , I understand , it can now be said that computers are automatically considered for any project , however small . |
| 21 | It will be said that children should maintain their innocence and should be protected from such distressing subjects as bereavement . |
| 22 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 23 | Next , it is said that lawyers and judges are not familiar with Parliamentary procedures and will therefore have difficulty in giving proper weight to the Parliamentary materials . |
| 24 | It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts . |
| 25 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 26 | It is said that lords and ladies and royalty were entertained here , and known that George Fox , the founder of the Quakers , preached here . |
| 27 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 28 | It is said that Nos. 25 and 34 were taken out of service and loaned to the War Office for use as Searchlight cars . |
| 29 | It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound . |
| 30 | It is said that vegetarians ( who do not eat meat or fish ) are healthier and live longer than meat-eaters . |