Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] say that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It should be said that Center Parcs are an excellent place to take children . |
3 | It should be said that Kerrang has its own club , or rather ‘ klub ’ , at the Marquee every week . |
4 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
5 | 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 : |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It must be said that Qaddafi 's account of nations lacks clarity . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | But here it must be said that John Calvin wanted a weekly communion and the only reason that Knox did n't follow suit in Scotland was the difficulty of organising such events in the rural parishes with a paucity of reformed clergy available to celebrate the sacrament . |
10 | Others , like the modern thinker , Alan Watts , have grudgingly admired it : ‘ Without any disrespect it must be said that Christianity is pre-eminently the gamblers ’ religion . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | On the debit side it must be said that Ventura is not really suited for use on documents where the styles and formats change from page to page ; newsletters and magazines , for example . |
13 | Jesus , in such a statement , is held to be unique , if only through the fact that this is the human of whom it must be said that God raised him . |
14 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Since quite serious charges have been made against the foster mother and her ‘ family , ’ it might be said that fairness to her requires that such an investigation should take place . |
17 | It might be said that war elephants were the battle tanks of the Moguls . |
18 | Indeed , it might be said that Augusta , as a whole , is his territory . |
19 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
20 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | First , at least in the kinds of knowledge on offer in higher education , it could be said that knowledge ‘ progresses ’ . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | It could be said that phileo is the relationship . |
26 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
27 | On the contrary , God gives men so many reasons to have lack of trust ( calamities , uncertainties , loss of hope ) that it could be said that God actually illustrates that trust in something or someone beneficial is not to be erected on happiness or good experiences alone . ’ |
28 | Now if it could be said that God in Christ took on specifically ‘ male humanity ’ , then women would be outside the scheme of salvation — and that has never been suggested . |
29 | In my judgment even if it could be said that Mr Clayton attorned tenant to Twogates by tacitly accepting the terms of that letter , such an attornment would not be evidence of an unequivocal intention on the part of the landlords to re-enter under the provisions of the … lease … |
30 | 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 . |