Example sentences of "[be] said [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed it might be said that one year on this course is worth four or five years of experience in the field . |
| 5 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 6 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 7 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 8 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 9 | In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable . |
| 10 | In terms of the aims set out in 1955 , it can be said that green belt policies have been fairly successful . |
| 11 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | In spite of Scott LJ 's efforts the prevalent view of textbook writers is that " It can be said that any covenant which affects the landlord qua landlord or the tenant qua tenant will probably be with the class of covenants which [ run ] , but this is not very helpful , and it is better to note examples from decided cases " ( P.F. Smith , Evans : The Law of Landlord and Tenant ( Butterworths : 1985 ) 75 ) . |
| 14 | If German anti-Semitism was the ‘ bastard child of the union between German nationalism and Christian anti-Semitism ’ then it must also be said that German nationalism was the offspring of military ambition and industrialisation . |
| 15 | They wilt readily learn to distinguish light from dark and there is some evidence that they can also distinguish patterns and colours , although it must be said that this capacity is extremely limited compared with the normal capacities of the animals concerned ( Pasik and Pasik 1982 ) . |
| 16 | It must be said that this technique for measuring capacitance is not particularly new . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it could be said that this type of objection does not relate to reasonableness but is concerned with breach . |
| 18 | Whilst owing his debt to Lorca , it has to be said that this volume is markedly conservative . |
| 19 | It could also be said that this quotation applies to school librarians , as part of the educational workforce . |
| 20 | However , it must be said that this paper is not an attempt to cast management in an entirely negative light and then to oppose that with an equally ‘ rosy ’ view of professionalism — with the implication that management must recede and that professionalism should advance . |
| 21 | It could be said that this assimilation had become ‘ fixed ’ as part of the phonological structure of English syllables , since exceptions are almost non-existent . |
| 22 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 23 | Although reported second-hand , it is said that one chap who 's $5,000 in the red and 90 days behind with payments got a call from the card company . |
| 24 | If it is said that that word is capable of a neutral meaning , my answer is that , in order to read section 3(1) harmoniously with section 1(1) in its natural sense , ‘ assumption ’ must receive a unilateral meaning . |
| 25 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 26 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 27 | It is said that this course was wholly unnecessary . |
| 28 | It is said that this ghost still beats his eerie tattoo during times of war . |
| 29 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 30 | As an example of phonetic differences at the segmental level , it is said that Australian English has the same set of phonemes and phonemic contrasts as RP , yet Australian pronunciation is so different from RP that it is easily recognised as such . |