Example sentences of "said [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 3 | On page 27 of the last issue of Credit Management , the footnote should have said that individual voluntary arrangements account for 13 per cent ( not 1 per cent as was printed ) of personal failures . |
| 4 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 5 | has said that actual damage is an essential ingredient in unintentional trespass to the person and if this is so there is no reason for distinguishing the case of trespass to goods . |
| 6 | Shares worthless : The Inland Revenue has said that ordinary and preference shares of Sound Diffusion are of ‘ negligible value ’ for taxation purposes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In another study , researchers have said that premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood than youngsters born after a full-term pregnancy . |
| 9 | Summing up the Japanese impact on Korea , it may be said that efficient but harsh administration was provided ; economic progress was promoted yet in a distorted way , designed to benefit the colonial master . |
| 10 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |
| 11 | It is often said that Muslim men think it a matter of pride that their women should n't work . |
| 12 | It must be said that continental discussions of some of these ideas read rather strangely , at least to the authors of this book . |
| 13 | President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania has said that poor countries enjoy two basic rights : ‘ To sell cheap and to buy dear . ’ |
| 14 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 15 | First taxation , the Chancellor has said that new Government public spending limits mean he does n't need to change the VAT base . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although the Department of the Environment has said that other developed countries in Europe , including Italy , should be able to dispose of their own waste , the consignments are being dealt with by the municipal toxic waste department in Manchester . |
| 18 | It was also said that good motivation alone was not enough for the unemployed as training was necessary , however determined a person was to obtain employment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 21 | A meeting of oceanographers in Massachusetts has said that large-scale testing is needed to establish the ocean 's potential as a dumping ground for millions of tons of sewage sludge and toxic waste . |
| 22 | We have said that nationalized industries should price at social marginal cost , but should this be short-run marginal cost ( SMC ) or long-run marginal cost ( LMC ) ? |
| 23 | It is often said that Japanese management concentrates on the Soft S 's whilst Western management concentrates on the Hard S's . |
| 24 | It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot . |
| 25 | The diocese 's surveyors had said that 100-mph winds could topple it . |
| 26 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
| 29 | The Russian Federation Supreme Soviet sent a delegation to the region , but it was said that Russian Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi had exacerbated the situation by giving an ultimatum to the National Guard to disband on Oct. 10 , in return for the holding of presidential elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 30 | 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 . |