Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb mod] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.1 The overall goal of this investigation is to argue that there is a very great deal that can be said , that has not yet been said , about the semantic value of fundamental syntactic relations . |
| 2 | At any one time , though , there are a number of relationships that may be said to be in a constitutional haze . |
| 3 | For the majority of the SSAPs , however , it is possible to identify elements that could be said to be relevant . |
| 4 | The Church was built in 1863 by William Hall and might be said to represent the ultimate in Victorian Non-Conformist ‘ Chapel ’ building . |
| 5 | It is true , certainly , that feeling good for no particular reason , and the sensation of warmth , do not involve objects or contents that can be said to be determinate in a certain sense . |
| 6 | In conclusion , is there anything of a general nature that can be said about Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem ? |
| 7 | Another component of intonation that can be said to have grammatical significance is the choice of tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 8 | Of course , many retail outlets fall between these two extremes and can be said to operate a medium quality trading policy . |
| 9 | A few years ago , in the brief period of enthusiasm and expansion after Russell , those responsible for writing reports , conducting research , making recommendations , did so in a fairly jovial cavalier fashion that could be said to characterise the type of men who operated their way to the top in adult education . |
| 10 | First , context suggests the sort of thing that might be said ( the crash was on a border , so the question of which side of the border something will happen on is appropriate ) . |
| 11 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 12 | One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream . |
| 13 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 14 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 15 | Chief Superintendent Paul Green of Holborn Police said at the scene last night : ‘ The only thing that can be said about the target is that it was in one of London 's main streets at a very busy time . |
| 16 | The one thing that can be said with certainty about mildew is that it is unpredictable . |
| 17 | One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities . |
| 18 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 19 | One thing that can be said about is that he he 's never drab . |
| 20 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 21 | But for its lack of references , which surely are essential for the chapters on spectroscopy , the book that could be said to be the best is Ralph and Joan Fessenden 's Organic Chemistry ( Willard Grant , 2nd ed ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of a system that can be said to be ‘ living ’ is its ability to self-replicate . |
| 23 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 24 | The one idea that can be said to have made a firm impression from the psychoanalytic approach to dreaming is that these experiences come from within the mind , rather than from outside ( although in the case of Jung 's psychology even this is not clear ) . |
| 25 | The other three are subject to severe cultural condemnation and can be said to represent the non-Chewong person , by which I mean people outside the wider social universe of humans and superhumans , in effect Malays and Chinese . |
| 26 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |
| 27 | As the balloon expands , the distance between any two spots increases , but there is no spot that can be said to be the center of the expansion . |