Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [modal v] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 2 | Although no meaning relation can be said to be totally without significance , by no means all conceivable relations are of equal general semantic interest . |
| 3 | A currency union by eliminating the political business cycle can be said to possess anti-inflation properties which are not necessarily present in an exchange rate union . |
| 4 | In the process Fanon might be said to have overestimated the extent to which , from subordination , it is possible to construct ‘ a politically conscious , unified , revolutionary Self , standing in unmitigated opposition to the oppressor ’ ( Problems , 30 ) . |
| 5 | Whilst any human cost of alcohol abuse could be said to be too great , it is important not to ignore both the economic and the social benefits associated with drinking . |
| 6 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | A concise statutory definition of insider dealing is not offered in the CSA 1985 , but conduct constituting insider dealing may be said to exist where : an insider deliberately deals as principal or agent on a recognised exchange in securities of the company in question on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 9 | If all these separate grams occur then the candidate string can be said to be allowable . |
| 10 | well I , I think I 'll take agree Mr you know much more about these matters than I do , I just , my eye just lit upon that one I thought that would perhaps the one in which the insurance directive could be said to be attached , but if you 've told me it 's C I 'm perfectly happy to accept it as being C. |
| 11 | And so he sat there , a tame lion , drumming his fingers , while Esther and Alix and Liz his wife chattered on , about scandals and liaisons , about breaking marriages and delinquent children , about Ivan the Terrible , about the Post-Impressionist exhibition at the Royal Academy , about the Arts Council , about the Beaubourg , about modernism in architecture , about Brian Bowen 's views on his reactionary boss at the Adult Education Institute , about what the word quango might be said to mean , about Kate Armstrong 's latest article on the single-parent family and child benefits : chatter , chatter , female chatter , unstructured , shimmering , malicious , appreciative , acute , indulgent , shifting , rapid , unpunctuated , glancing , a light bright surface ripple on a deeper current , and Charles sat on , biting his inner lip . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I shall discuss some theoretical issues , such as the relation of deixis to semantics and pragmatics ; the relationship between deixis which occurs in literary and non-literary texts ; and the link deixis might be said to make between context-dependency and truth-conditional semantics . |
| 14 | Requiem Mass will be said for Michael Paul Largey ( 18 ) , at St Teresa 's Church Glen Road after his body is taken from Andersonstown Park West at 9am . |
| 15 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 16 | The locational analysis school can be said to have |
| 17 | In this way Foucault could be said to be returning to Marx in removing the subject from the centre of history , were it not for the fact that he dispenses with the consolations of Marx 's historicism also . |
| 18 | In the very simplest analysis , the task of curriculum implementation can be said to involve two main processes : first changing attitudes of policy makers , administrators , teacher trainers , supervisors , teachers , parents and ultimately ( the sole goal of the process ) learners ; secondly providing the materials and administrative means to make this possible . |
| 19 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 20 | On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator . |
| 21 | The margins applied to the spot rate would be said to be at a premium , premium because it makes the US$ more expensive in terms of sterling to enable the cost to be passed on . |
| 22 | ELLEN 'S LETTER ARRIVED the following week by which time life could be said , by all but the most observant , to have returned to normal . |
| 23 | In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect . |
| 24 | The defeasibility suggestion could be said to provide an extension of the earlier requirement that there be no relevant falsehoods ; we now look beyond those propositions actually believed by the believer to propositions which would have an effect if they were believed . |
| 25 | In addition , another family member could be said to ‘ weld ’ it all together . |
| 26 | The credit for the laughter at the dinner table could be said to be shared between Henry and Frank Conway . |