Example sentences of "[be] said [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been said that private companies can be enticed into investment in eastern Europe , as in the deal whereby BSN of France and Nestle of Switzerland bought a stake in Czech confectioner Chakoladnovy . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 3 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 4 | It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it . |
| 5 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It must be said that continental discussions of some of these ideas read rather strangely , at least to the authors of this book . |
| 8 | The first point definitely implies the second , but it must be said that other mechanisms exist in the equations for introducing folds into the return maps , so that a similar transition is observed even for b-values which do not mean that increasing r involves passing through the spiral of Fig. 6.2 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends . |
| 11 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 12 | With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests . |
| 13 | That 's how I see things evolving , er but it must be said that Russian statesmen have got to have this self restraint not to abuse those nuclear weapons just as the United States has had to . |
| 14 | However , it should be said that past costs can be useful in predicting future costs . |
| 15 | In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable . |
| 16 | Concluding this section , it can be said that manual workers not only suffer more from the costs and deprivations of the workplace than non-manual workers but they also receive lower compensation and rewards in terms of pay , fringe benefits and , in some instances , even of social security benefits . |
| 17 | However , it has to be said that local authorities on the whole frown on totting and many ban it outright so caution is advised . |
| 18 | But it must be said that multi-user computers can be slow at times if a large number of people are all trying to use the computer at once . |
| 19 | However , it must be said that true danseurs nobles and classiques are rare . |
| 20 | In terms of the aims set out in 1955 , it can be said that green belt policies have been fairly successful . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It must be said that Scottish Amicable 's own version of ‘ JR ’ along with his side kick ‘ I always watch Coronation Street while eating my tea ’ Hunter are totally enthralled with the marketing potential of the whole concept ! |
| 23 | But it should perhaps be said that amateur boxers often avoid the excesses and the injuries of their professional colleagues , and the likes of Dick MacTaggart is a monument to sportsmanlike behaviour . |
| 24 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
| 25 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
| 26 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 27 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
| 28 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |