Example sentences of "be say [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To continue with the floral metaphor , it could be said that researchers must search the fully flowered attitudinal stances of this year for the seeds of next year 's crop . |
| 2 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |
| 3 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 4 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
| 5 | By this stage it could fairly be said that women had gained a footing in the Edinburgh book-houses . |
| 6 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 7 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 8 | But it need hardly be said that voters sometimes disappoint candidates and campaign managers . |
| 9 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 10 | Without engaging in speculation , it can be said that relationships of this type might have acted as a channel for ideas and opinions and represented a means by which influence could be exerted . |
| 11 | It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water . |
| 12 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 13 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 14 | It is n't quite wrong , Bill , for it to be said that Councils should be spending up to their capped level . |
| 15 | It has to be said that fox-hunters are not the least quarrelsome of Her Majesty 's subjects , but they are as mewling , puking , bairns when compared with church persons . |
| 16 | It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district . |
| 17 | In archaeology , I understand , it can now be said that computers are automatically considered for any project , however small . |
| 18 | It will be said that children should maintain their innocence and should be protected from such distressing subjects as bereavement . |
| 19 | If he really supports the work of the east London TEC , he should not be saying that firms should not spend 0.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Apparently conflicting messages emerge from these two branches : the former branch seems to be saying that decision-makers do not appear to behave in accordance with the basic accepted paradigm ( Subjective Expected Utility Theory and Game Theory ) ; while the latter branch seems to suggest that market outcomes coincide with those which would be predicted by this accepted paradigm . |