Example sentences of "[be] said [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may be said that the social work of the cinema is to naturalized certain sense of individual subjectivity by producing cinema-viewing as a timeless and abundant experience . |
| 32 | It could be said that the hard teaching of the New Testament is hopelessly out of touch with modern life . |
| 33 | In this different culture it can be said that the basic dynamics of the Oedipal situation appear , albeit modified by the different structural and cultural arrangements . |
| 34 | Finally , it can be said that the public interest and public policy have played an especially important part as a vehicle for providing a reason for giving redress in those cases in which the parties are not contractually bound . |
| 35 | No doubt it will be said that the British public have said chemist when they should have said pharmacist for so long that it would be impossible to change , but the obvious answer to that is that decimalisation presented little problem . |
| 36 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 37 | However , it has to be said that the British lag behind other European countries , particularly Germany , in this respect . |
| 38 | IT COULD be said that the Scottish appetite for golf is so healthy they would turn out to watch anybody play . |
| 39 | It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia . |
| 40 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 41 | While it could be said that an extreme poem reveals hidden struggles most clearly , it may also be remote from the poet 's characteristic beliefs and attitudes . |
| 42 | We could n't hear what was being said but the large man was bending over Bogie 's table and poking him in the chest . |
| 43 | It is said that a Dark Elf assassin emerged from his hiding place beneath the piles of bones and struck Tethlis down with a poisoned blade . |
| 44 | It is said that a British ornithologist asked his aborigine guide what the birds were and the guide said , in aboriginese , ‘ good food ’ : I suppose we 're lucky he did n't say ‘ birds , you dickhead ’ . |
| 45 | Thus it is said that a particular decision was taken by Sir Bryan Carsberg rather than by Oftel . |
| 46 | It is said that the masked lady died there in childbirth . |
| 47 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 48 | Nor am I impressed by the floodgates argument — it is said that the Divisional Court would be overwhelmed by applications to review visitors ' decisions . |
| 49 | It is said that the final preparations owed their antibacterial activity to the phenol which they contained as a preservative . |
| 50 | However , in another report ( EP , 26 January 1987 ) it is said that the average proportion of all contributions to the Federal Fund used for direct investment has not exceeded 2.5 per cent . |
| 51 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 52 | But it is said that the Kal yuga gives way to the Sat yuga when the manifested power of the Life Force has reached its lowest ebb . |
| 53 | By handling an object , it is said that the sensitive person can not only identify its owner , but describe his character and even his whereabouts . |
| 54 | It is said that the reclining river-god is a Hellenistic invention . |
| 55 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 56 | I noticed also that the chief executive of Courtauld 's said that the Labour party 's proposals for a statutory minimum wage would lead to big job losses . |
| 57 | Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face . |
| 58 | It was said that every mangy cur in the neighbourhood gathered in packs after the execution , greedily licking the blood from the cobblestones . |
| 59 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 60 | A century ago it was said that the Danish Red ( then one of only two Danish breeds considered worthy of note , the other being the Jutland ) needed abundant fodder but with good care it could be an efficient producer : the milking cow put it all into the bag but would fatten readily when dry or barren . |