Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] say [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 2 | A rescuer who acts to save a person in danger and is injured , can not be said to exercise the free choice which is necessary for volenti . |
| 3 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 4 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 5 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 6 | Such combinations constitute formulaic patterns which are indeed of very frequent occurrence in language use and need to be accounted for ( as I mentioned in Chapter 3 ) but they can hardly be said to represent the total language to be taught . |
| 7 | Chomsky ( 1957 : 100 ) goes even further , for he holds that to is a morpheme that " can hardly be said to have a meaning in any independent sense " . |
| 8 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 9 | English can therefore be said to have a grammatical category of number . |