Example sentences of "[adv] be said that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should thus be said that any incident which involves , either directly or indirectly , Hamlet himself , is connected with ‘ the main purpose of the play ’ . |
| 2 | And it can not be said that that is the union 's business as of generally recognised right to decide , or to share in deciding , that application . |
| 3 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 4 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 8 | It could also be said that this quotation applies to school librarians , as part of the educational workforce . |
| 9 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 10 | Similarly , women are not beyond attraction to a young boy , although it may probably be said that this is less often the case . |
| 11 | ‘ It may safely be said that all good gardening consists in putting the right plant in the right place . ’ |
| 12 | Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept . |