Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can be say " in BNC.

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1 It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established …
2 The word we use for the overall behaviour of the pitch in these examples is tone ; a one-syllable word can be said with either a level tone or a moving tone .
3 Neither the artisanal nor the post-artisanal phase of market relations in cultural production can be said to have ended .
4 Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations .
5 In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism .
6 All conceptions involving the cultivation and satisfaction of the so-called expensive tastes are harder to satisfy , and the Rawlsian theory can be said to discriminate against them .
7 For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities .
8 So , all in all , only about three-quarters of those who changed their minds with additional information can be said to have genuinely interpreted that information , and made a rational choice .
9 In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes .
10 The prime function of representative standing can be said to be to facilitate the protection of what might be called ‘ diffuse interests ’ , that is interests shared by many people .
11 As for MacDonald 's diary … a good deal can be said .
12 Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler .
13 To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect .
14 Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality .
15 In this way , the legal system can be said to become ‘ self-reflexive ’ : it develops the capacity to reformulate the rules by which it functions .
16 Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local .
17 In this model , as with others discussed in the remainder of this chapter , changes in aggregate demand can be said to have real output effects because of imperfect competition ( that is , price stickiness ) , whereas real effects of such changes discussed in the previous chapter arose because of imperfect information .
18 The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust .
19 In this sense , hot coffee can be said to share a power to dissolve sugar with steam , certain chemicals , and so on .
20 The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ .
21 The major themes of modern ideology can be said to contain the potentiality for criticism of royalty , for values of individual achievement and democratic equality must contain their own implicit potentiality for criticizing inherited privilege and aristocratic power .
22 Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour .
23 Internal control can be said to comprise the whole system of controls established by management , in order to :
24 This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists .
25 What , then , are the grounds upon which local government can be said to promote democracy ?
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