Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] said that " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reverting to the construction of sand features and taking the small scale features first it may be said that the formation of sand ripples is closely connected with the process of saltation . |
| 32 | Although , in terms of campaigning , electoral turnout and party identification , it may be said that the two main parties in Britain are less important than they were , Britain still provides us with an example of party government resulting from a party system having considerable independent influence on the political process . |
| 33 | Applying what was explained there , it may be said that a person intends to cause a person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him when he ( the person uttering the threats , etc. , ) either desires to cause such an effect , or when he realises what impact his conduct is almost certain to have and nevertheless persists with it . |
| 34 | The extent of the duty to state reasons thus varies according to the nature and context of the measure in question , and it may be said that it is not required to go into matters of detail to a disproportionate extent . |
| 35 | However , at the outset it may be said that to some extent the political objective of requiring the Community legislative institutions to bear those considerations in mind would appear already to be being observed ; for example , Council Decision 92/421 on tourism policy expressly refers in its recitals to ‘ the need to comply with the subsidiarity principle ’ . |
| 36 | It may be said that these are superficial impressions derived from a superficial knowledge of small parts of the stratigraphical record . |
| 37 | Thus , in the sense that jewellers who keep valuable items in their shop-windows cause smash-and-grab raids and women who walk alone cause rapes , it may be said that the police do , in a sense , cause riots and lawbreaking merely by existing . |
| 38 | ( 60 ) It may be said that few middle-class couples dare marry without this admirable handbook . |
| 39 | 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 " . |
| 40 | As a general rule it may be said that the more serious the breach , the clearer the words needed to exclude liability for it , and that where the court is faced with a choice of two or more interpretations of a clause , it will favour the one which produces the most reasonable result . |
| 41 | It may be said that the section on Henry V has very little detailed discussion of the play 's language and style . |
| 42 | It should be said that we have no intention of implementing this ratio . |
| 43 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 44 | In fairness , it should be said that the best of the regionalist novels were considerably more complex and accomplished than they are usually given credit for , but , nonetheless , the regionalist novel as a whole came to be identified with a type of writing against which later writers reacted , one which , in its concern to document and to convey a message , was artistically clumsy and simplistic in its presentation of reality . |
| 45 | It should be said that the question that chiefly concerns parents — what are the effects of TV violence ? — is not settled in any precise sense . |
| 46 | Firstly it should be said that the contention is over the origin of an idea . |
| 47 | It should be said that Center Parcs are an excellent place to take children . |
| 48 | It should be said that Kerrang has its own club , or rather ‘ klub ’ , at the Marquee every week . |
| 49 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |
| 50 | It should be said that , even at that time , the panel had been subjected to a mild cleaning operation , as shown by a still earlier photograph taken when the work was in pristine condition . |
| 51 | It should be said that his range of original and indeed trail-blazing contributions to modern theology was wider even than this . |
| 52 | Barth travels far and wide through the Bible , from Genesis to Revelation , and digests , criticises , and re-states a vast amount of material from the previous history of Christian thought , and from contemporary discussion — much of this in lengthy pages of tiny print , which readers are sometimes relieved to discover can be passed over without loss of the main drift ( though it should be said that some of the finest passages are to be found in the small print ) . |
| 53 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 54 | In defence of Maxim 's interpretation , it should be said that it comes closer than usual to the notated metronome marks . |
| 55 | ( 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 . ) |
| 56 | It should be said that there are certain other features of the case to which attention ought to be drawn . |
| 57 | It should be said that the fact that electrical activity was possible indicates that Miss Thomas had experienced the cardiac arrest a relatively short time prior to her arrival in the department and that at least some of the resuscitative effort performed by the police had been effective . |
| 58 | It should be said that he provided a major influence on inspiration in the development of the Division 's work in this area . |
| 59 | ( It should be said that their size meant packing was very easy and they were watertight . ) |
| 60 | It should be said that in a nominally tideless sea where charterers ban night sailing and there is no need to go out of sight of land , dead reckoning backed up with fixes on prominent objects ashore will get you round nicely . |