Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 2 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 3 | Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own . |
| 4 | I suppose there is a trivial sense in which many ideas can be said to have ‘ opposites ’ . |
| 5 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 6 | Rural communities in Wales or the North of England , Italian immigrant communities in London , or Pakistani communities in Rochdale , working-class communities in Bethnal Green or Liverpool , French Canadians in Quebec ; all these patterns and many others can be said to exist within industrial societies and yet do not clearly conform to the model presented earlier . |
| 7 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |