Example sentences of "[be] said [that] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns .
2 ‘ It must be said that many Christian men still have a hard time seeing women 's issues as their issues too , ’ said Bishop Edmond Browning , Anglican Primate in the USA .
3 ( 60 ) It may be said that few middle-class couples dare marry without this admirable handbook .
4 It needs to be said that some handicapped readers ( brain-damaged or retarded ) can fully enjoy books : we have the lesson of Cushla as an inspiration here ( Butler , 1979 ) .
5 At least it can be said that these educational programmes may diminish the occasional experimental use ( which may be damaging in itself ) by those who do not have addictive disease .
6 ( It is said that distinguished foreign guests of the Swiss Confederation visiting Bern are invariably taken out to dine somewhere in the Emmental . )
7 It is said that these underground beings , djinn , rise in the half light of pre-dawn and in the twilight .
8 It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot .
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