Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be say have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one sense it might also be said to have laboured to produce a mouse . |
| 2 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 3 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 4 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |
| 5 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 6 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 7 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 8 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 9 | The House of Lords said that punctual payment required payment on the Friday , if the banks were closed on the Saturday and Sunday , and that the owners could not be said to have waived the breach simply because their bank had accepted the payment order . |
| 10 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 11 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 12 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 13 | The appellant , if he believed that Mr. Occhi , knowing that £7 was far in excess of the legal fare , had nevertheless agreed to pay him that sum , could not be said to have acted dishonestly in taking it . |
| 14 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 15 | It has already been pointed out that there was no authority on the precise issue raised by Morgan , so that in that sense the House of Lords could not be said to have changed the law . |
| 16 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |
| 17 | Thus , because the taxpayer could not be said to control the trustees , he could not be said to have control over the application of the income within s742(e) . |
| 18 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 19 | The English armies could hardly be said to have been outfought since they had not yet fought at all . |
| 20 | The villa at Lufton , Somerset , with its outstanding octagonal shrine supported by narrow buttresses , could also be said to have similar characteristics . |
| 21 | Jim Nicholson , the chairman of Down Royal , could also be said to have a grievance for he has sponsored three of the National Hunt races on the Saturday card and in fact has put his money where his mouth is . |
| 22 | ‘ But in the case of such an animated film , there would n't be anything behind the cartoon sofa ; not only that , the sofa could n't be said to have a behind at all . |
| 23 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 24 | Such topics are kept ‘ off the agenda ’ by the dominant group who may then be said to have the power of non-decision-making as well as decision-making . |
| 25 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 26 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 27 | For communication involves the notions of intention and agency , and only those inferences that are openly intended to be conveyed can properly be said to have been communicated . |
| 28 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 29 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 30 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |