Example sentences of "be say that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may also be said that Caldwell is concerned with foresight of consequences , whereas Morgan is concerned with knowledge of circumstances .
2 Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness .
3 It must be said that Qaddafi 's account of nations lacks clarity .
4 Not since the nineteenth century can it be said that Parliament has made policy directly .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear .
9 By this stage it could fairly be said that women had gained a footing in the Edinburgh book-houses .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It must be said that Cardus 's review expressed the reservation that there was , perhaps , some sameness of carriage and accent in each of the three performances , whether it was the First Symphony , the Seventh , or the Apollonian Fourth ( a reading Karajan later modified ) ; but his review characteristically paints a picture , sets the scene for the absent reader :
13 There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible .
14 In fairness it has to be said that Levin tries to isolate Debord from a purely formal Modernism , and from naive realism ( the politics of the signified ) .
15 On the whole , it can be said that Coleman , in the circumstances , served the College , the profession and the country , well and that a balanced assessment , tending neither to adulation nor to denigration , is indicated .
16 Takamine 's experience in this field alone would recommend the EN 40C to many , although it must be said that Lowden , Ovation , Washburn and many other acoustics that we have reviewed in these pages recently provide stiff competition .
17 It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast .
18 It could fairly be said that Mrs Thatcher won the economic argument .
19 First , at least in the kinds of knowledge on offer in higher education , it could be said that knowledge ‘ progresses ’ .
20 It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 .
21 It can be said that works of this kind — and there are many other possible examples begin more evidently from the actual art and culture in question , and can thus be assigned to history or criticism .
22 Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man .
23 But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband .
24 Still less can it be said that Jesus had a feminist interpretation of social realities .
25 It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist .
26 Erm , to comparison with Peterborough 's particularly useful but it might be , must be said that Peterborough do have problems with at least three or four of the their community centres all the time , in fact have quite a substantial budget on er staff involved in sorting out problems with voluntary managed community centres .
27 From this it could well be said that life motivation stems from the perpetual satisfaction of recurring desire .
28 In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya .
29 It should be said that Center Parcs are an excellent place to take children .
30 In acknowledgement of British decency , it must be said that Gandhi possessed the supreme advantage in his campaigns of knowing that , so long as he confined his activities to non-violent protest , he was not risking death at the hands of the authorities .
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