Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [be] said have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose there is a trivial sense in which many ideas can be said to have ‘ opposites ’ . |
| 2 | Rather volcanoes can be said to have a morphological capacity representing the maximum size attainable by a particular type of eruption and associated ejecta . |
| 3 | In short , the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 4 | An organism works as an entire unit , and its genes can be said to have effects on the whole organism , even though each copy of any one gene exerts its immediate effects only within its own cell . |
| 5 | It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained the abilities identified in a Statement of Attainment . |
| 6 | Finally and most significantly the closing sentence of the extract is well worth repeating : " It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained . " |
| 7 | " A good deal more patient organising , much strenuous effort and many further victories over the forces of organised wealth will be necessary before seamen can be said to have achieved that measure of justice which is his due " . |
| 8 | Within the culture as a whole these popular activities can be said to have established a limited , unresolved but not entirely unsatisfactory position . |
| 9 | To ask whether the meeting had caused this conversation is meaningless , for spontaneously arising conversations can be said to have many different causes . |