Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 " . |
| 2 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | If learning is defined as the improvement of specific performance following experience of that performance then organisations as well as individuals can be said to learn . |
| 6 | They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) . |