Example sentences of "be said that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 2 | In the case of some evangelical writers ( though not Barth ) it may also be said that male dominance is fundamental to creation and found in all known human societies . |
| 3 | It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view . |
| 4 | Of course it must be said that many people ca n't wait to leave their schooldays behind and so not all losses are to be regretted . |
| 5 | It must be said that continental discussions of some of these ideas read rather strangely , at least to the authors of this book . |
| 6 | Indeed it might be said that one year on this course is worth four or five years of experience in the field . |
| 7 | The first point definitely implies the second , but it must be said that other mechanisms exist in the equations for introducing folds into the return maps , so that a similar transition is observed even for b-values which do not mean that increasing r involves passing through the spiral of Fig. 6.2 . |
| 8 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 9 | ( It should be said that such views often gained the support of feminists , particularly outraged by the forcible use of the speculum under the Contagious Diseases Acts . ) |
| 10 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 11 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 12 | Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends . |
| 13 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
| 14 | With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests . |
| 15 | That 's how I see things evolving , er but it must be said that Russian statesmen have got to have this self restraint not to abuse those nuclear weapons just as the United States has had to . |
| 16 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 17 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 18 | However , it should be said that past costs can be useful in predicting future costs . |
| 19 | In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable . |
| 20 | Concluding this section , it can be said that manual workers not only suffer more from the costs and deprivations of the workplace than non-manual workers but they also receive lower compensation and rewards in terms of pay , fringe benefits and , in some instances , even of social security benefits . |
| 21 | However , it has to be said that local authorities on the whole frown on totting and many ban it outright so caution is advised . |
| 22 | But it must be said that multi-user computers can be slow at times if a large number of people are all trying to use the computer at once . |
| 23 | However , it must be said that true danseurs nobles and classiques are rare . |
| 24 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 25 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 26 | In terms of the aims set out in 1955 , it can be said that green belt policies have been fairly successful . |
| 27 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 28 | It has to be said that some species are notoriously difficult to acclimatise to aquarium life when collected from the wild , but once the acclimatisation process is complete they will usually become resilient and even robust . |
| 29 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 30 | It may be said that these facts are materially different from those in our problem , for in our problem there seems to be no choice as to who is to die : it is simply ( one supposes ) a question of some or all . |