Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] be said [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
| 2 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 3 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 4 | It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it . |
| 5 | In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’ |
| 6 | Equally , it has been said that half the ceiling structure and half the floor structure is included in a lease of the space between them ( Phelps v City of London Corporation [ 1916 ] 2 Ch 255 ) . |
| 7 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |