Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | John Barber , in the Daily Telegraph , described Crawford as ‘ a winsome young comedian who recalls Harold Lloyd ’ and his performance as ‘ a continual delight ’ but added , ‘ It should perhaps be said that there is nothing pornographic in the show — nor , I am afraid , much wit or natural jollity . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | While appreciating the extraordinary difficulties facing Mr Lamont , it must still be said that he could have handled them better than this . |
| 5 | It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure . |
| 6 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 7 | But it must also be said that Servan-Schreiber 's unwillingness to share the responsibility for management with the centre 's scientists contributed to their subsequent departures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( It must also be said that only about one in ten of the adult population in Britain in teetotal and it could be that at least some people in this group are unwell , rather than the other way round . ) |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it must also be said that the new revenue at the monks ' disposal served to hasten the building of the new choir of the cathedral , which ( as we shall see ) was one of the major achievements of Anselm 's archiepiscopate . |
| 11 | It must also be said that Herbert Casson 's admiration for youth could outbid even Baden-Powell 's undying romanticism : For page upon page , across three issue of Teacher 's World , Herbert Casson went on like this , at the same unrelenting pace . |
| 12 | It must also be said that during these early years , in the 1870s , there was little hostile reaction from most of the men . |
| 13 | Further , an examination of the impact of Japan 's industrialization on the industrialization of twentieth century South East Asia will identify the importance of the Asian capitalist network in shaping the modern economic growth of the region , as well as some of the ‘ missed opportunities ’ which occurred under European rule from the middle of the nineteenth century : it must also be said that the penetration of Japanese manufactures into South East Asia had destructive as well as constructive implications for the South East Asian economies . |
| 14 | It must also be said that they were not alone in their efforts to secure the Francoist state against those it branded as " anti-Spain " . |
| 15 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It should also be said that people of influence , who have n't put it in writing , also openly agreed with the placing of a bolt . |
| 18 | It should also be said that marketing considerations can come into the calculations . |
| 19 | It should also be said that while he speaks of ‘ absolute dependence ’ , he does not mean to imply that we have no personal freedom or responsibility , that we are mere puppets in the hands of omnipotence . |
| 20 | It should also be said that marketing considerations can come into the calculation . |
| 21 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 22 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 23 | It might also be said that the Portland Limestone of southern England is the Tithonian limestone in yet another form , with what is mainly a molluscan fauna of limited diversity . |
| 24 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 25 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 26 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 27 | The case caused much discussion especially as it could scarcely be said that his activity was directly connected with his duties as a judge . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it could also be said that the madness of modern life is hopelessly out of touch with God ! |
| 29 | It could also be said that without evaluation , proper identification of need is pointless ! |
| 30 | It could also be said that this quotation applies to school librarians , as part of the educational workforce . |