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

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1 Also consider whether the defendant can be said to have waived limitation , raising an estoppel .
2 Much more evidence needs to be uncovered , if indeed it exists , much more work to be done even in available sources before the origins and development of this sort of muftilik can be said to have been fully studied .
3 Finally , and to further compound the confusion , there were a number of differing schools or sects — and even , apparently , sects within sects — that constituted the Judaic orthodoxy of the time , if , indeed , any such orthodoxy can be said to have existed .
4 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 .
5 Errors of fact or law will have to stand , provided the expert can be said to have asked himself " the right question " .
6 If , for example , a mother has been forced to resort to repetitious shouting , whining appeals and querulous naggings , the child can be said to have learned — learned to ‘ turn off ’ what is being said .
7 Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably .
8 And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ?
9 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 .
10 The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade .
11 What factors present immediately before an event can be said to have directly provoked it ?
12 By 1818 , when the War of Independence was over and the Republican Revolution can be said to have been won , America had rejected both the Crown and religious establishment , and had accepted a creed that granted religious toleration and the ‘ natural rights of man ’ .
13 In this , the makers of the Revolution can be said to have played some part .
14 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 .
15 Where organizational defects were involved therefore , the prosecution can be said to have led to significant organizational improvements in at least 60 per cent of cases . ’
16 If , as in English equity , the beneficiary can be said to have equitable ownership , there is reason in allowing that ownership to be asserted over objects which replace the original trust property in the hands of the trustee .
17 One way in which the 1975 legislation can be said to have further endorsed the domestic division of labour is by making provision of widows ' pensions by occupational schemes one condition of approval by the Occupational Pensions Board .
18 Taken that way , the book can be said to have shown the problems of hypothesizing about origins ; and also the problems associated with supposing that animals , men or plants were suddenly created , fully-grown so that they could manage on their own .
19 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 .
20 Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head .
21 The locational analysis school can be said to have
22 In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led .
23 What emerges from the space of humanism contradicts what once defined that space ; in this sense Fanon can be said to have followed the path of the perverse : a negation of the dominant is made from a trajectory that emerged from it — a deviation from , which is also , simultaneously , a contradiction of .
24 Neither the artisanal nor the post-artisanal phase of market relations in cultural production can be said to have ended .
25 There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy .
26 JOAN CROSS can be said to have had two distinguished performing careers : pre-war and post-war .
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