Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Some of Freud 's patients became more rational in their understanding of their problems , and they could therefore be said to be nearer than non-patients to the standard Freud held up as worthy of human beings . |
| 62 | Guido paused and smiled a crude smile that suggested that the same could never be said about him . |
| 63 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 64 | The same may also be said of the existence of a right of appeal . |
| 65 | This may also be said of the fibre intake in man where we generally eat a low fibre diet but evolved eating a high fibre diet . |
| 66 | As you look at the above diagram of the learning cycle you may well be saying to yourself ‘ Is that all there is to it ? |
| 67 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 68 | Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ . |
| 69 | ‘ Well , that ca n't be said of you ! ’ |
| 70 | Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ . |
| 71 | For want of about £2 million , the same ca n't be said of the Vulcan Bomber . |
| 72 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
| 73 | ‘ They are children on the brink , at the end of their tether , and we ca n't be saying to them come back in 50 weeks . ’ |
| 74 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |
| 75 | Perhaps : will probably be saying to yourself ‘ 4 + 6 — 10 ; + 9 = 19 … ’ and so on . |
| 76 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 77 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 78 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 79 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 80 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 81 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 82 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 83 | The same can not be said about languages in which the predicator frequently comes at the beginning of the clause and therefore represents an unmarked — or at least less marked — thematic choice . |
| 84 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 85 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 86 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 87 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 88 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 89 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 90 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |