Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] say [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be said that Center Parcs are an excellent place to take children . |
| 2 | Others , like the modern thinker , Alan Watts , have grudgingly admired it : ‘ Without any disrespect it must be said that Christianity is pre-eminently the gamblers ’ religion . |
| 3 | Since quite serious charges have been made against the foster mother and her ‘ family , ’ it might be said that fairness to her requires that such an investigation should take place . |
| 4 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
| 5 | It might be said that war elephants were the battle tanks of the Moguls . |
| 6 | First , at least in the kinds of knowledge on offer in higher education , it could be said that knowledge ‘ progresses ’ . |
| 7 | It could be said that phileo is the relationship . |
| 8 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
| 9 | To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat . |
| 10 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 11 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 12 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |