Example sentences of "[be] say [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history . |
| 2 | It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " . |
| 3 | It has often been said that the majority of European farmers live poor , but die rich . |
| 4 | ( iii ) Limitation of liability.It has been said that the courts tend to view clauses which limit liability more favourably than those which provide for a total exclusion . |
| 5 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 6 | It has been said that the Church has a responsibility to ‘ engage the culture of our nation with the gospel . ’ |
| 7 | para 4 : It has also been said that the problem of induction is … |
| 8 | It has been said that the Court should consider an interim sum ‘ which would alleviate or mitigate the sufferings or hardships of the pursuer as a result of the injuries during the interim period until the case is finally decided ’ but , more recently , some judges have been persuaded that there is no reason why the interim payment should be restricted to the period up to the date of Proof and that if some estimate of the full value of the claim can be made , the pursuer is entitled to receive a significant portion thereof . |
| 9 | The drafter can , therefore , minimise the scope for application of the rule by seeking to avoid ambiguity , since it has been said that the court " must not strive to create ambiguities by strained interpretation " ( Lord Wilberforce in Ailsa Craig Fishing Co Ltd v Malvern Fishing Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 964 ) . |
| 10 | But for the fact that the rioters supported the Government , itself widely believed to regard the riots with tacit approval , it could have been said that the country was on the point of revolution . |
| 11 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 12 | It has been said that the mission to Dessau on May 28 was the roughest the Group ever experienced . |
| 13 | It has been said that the word ’ semantics ’ refers to the analysis of the meaning of single sentences . |
| 14 | It has been said that the Meditations on the Passion are proper to beginners in spiritual life . |
| 15 | It has been said that the history of the landscape of Britain is ‘ one long assart ’ ( clearance ) . |
| 16 | It has been said that the name Lowthorpe or Logetorp could have meant ‘ Law-village ’ in ancient Norse . |
| 17 | It has often been said that the family kept the process secret , but this seems unlikely , since it is known that pearl ash was used to secure the transparency . |
| 18 | It has been said that the failure of this railway to attract passengers was due primarily to the tedious roundabout rail journey to Newtown via Abermule as compared with the direct and cheaper approach to the market town by bus . |
| 19 | The inhibiting effect of sedimentation on corals has been stressed in the past and it has been said that the absence of corals from the mouths of large rivers , for example those of south-east Asia , is due to the amount of fine suspended sediment . |
| 20 | It follows from what has just been said that the identity of the respondent is not of much importance in defining the scope of judicial review . |
| 21 | If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) . |
| 22 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 23 | It has been said that the theory of the Oedipus complex is culturally ethnocentric , and that in other cultures , with different family systems , there is no Oedipus complex . |
| 24 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 25 | Finally , it has been said that the Department of Trade and Industry bears the mantle of the most unsuccessful Department of State . |
| 26 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |
| 27 | Indeed , it has been said that the north-west of Scotland has a higher sustained wind speed than any other inhabited part of the world ( Gloyne 1968 ) . |
| 28 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're saying that the plates had passengers on them and it is these pieces of flotsam and jetsam , not the crustal plates , that have made the most impact on land formation , ’ Blake says . |
| 30 | So really it 's understood in these allegations that you 're saying that the solicitors should have invited your client to provide them with the authority to write to the bank . |