Example sentences of "[noun] can [be] said [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 3 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 4 | The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |