Example sentences of "be say that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that a negative character quality is a positive quality misused . |
| 2 | It can never be said of a theory that it is true , however well it has withstood rigorous tests , but it can hopefully be said that a current theory is superior to its predecessors in the sense that it is able to withstand tests that falsified those predecessors . |
| 3 | It can not be said that a warm relationship developed between the Minister and the doctors . |
| 4 | It could be said that a major function of handmade ceramic ware , individually thrown mugs and bowls , is to aid the transition into the automated computer age . |
| 5 | This realization has led to a great deal of debate and , although it can not be said that a general consensus has been reached on how best to define development , a good deal of light has been shed on the processes involved in different types of development . |
| 6 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |
| 7 | It is said that a Dark Elf assassin emerged from his hiding place beneath the piles of bones and struck Tethlis down with a poisoned blade . |
| 8 | It is said that a British ornithologist asked his aborigine guide what the birds were and the guide said , in aboriginese , ‘ good food ’ : I suppose we 're lucky he did n't say ‘ birds , you dickhead ’ . |
| 9 | Thus it is said that a particular decision was taken by Sir Bryan Carsberg rather than by Oftel . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , John Wilkins was to say that a prevalent objection to the Copernican system was not man 's dethronement but an elevation above his true station . |