Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb mod] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | These exchanges may take the form of ‘ mock fighting ’ in which a clear set of rules may be said to operate . |
| 2 | Thus each group of accounts might be said to be objective but they are not comparable . |
| 3 | But the long period of non-use can be said to amount to a custom , and to create a reasonable expectation that the pattern of restraint should continue in the future ( O'Brien , 1967 , pp. 79–80 ) . |
| 4 | Thus , Members of Parliament may be said to occupy much the same position with respect to the nationalised industries as do shareholders with respect to a joint stock company . |
| 5 | Similarly , any carrot is going to do you some good , but those grown without the aid of pesticides could be said to do you even more good — the extra glow imparted by this thought naturally infuses a carrot salad . |
| 6 | Much more evidence needs to be uncovered , if indeed it exists , much more work to be done even in available sources before the origins and development of this sort of muftilik can be said to have been fully studied . |
| 7 | In short , the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 8 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 9 | A ‘ steersman ’ in a towed vehicle will be held to be ‘ driving ’ if the extent and degree of control could be said to correctly describe ‘ driving ’ ( R v MacDonagh , [ 1974 ] RTR 372 and McQuaid v Anderton , [ 1980 ] 3 All ER 540 ) . |
| 10 | The maleness of Christ may be said to form the linchpin of this picture . |
| 11 | Whereas any belief can be anchored , regardless of the content of the belief , only certain sons of belief could be said to be objectified . |
| 12 | There is the belief that even if criteria of rationality differ across forms of thought , at least individual forms of thought could be said to contain discrete pools of rationality . |
| 13 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 14 | ‘ If the purpose of life can be said to be replication , then we have both failed dismally . ’ |
| 15 | On this basis the degree of hierarchy could be said to increase , ceteris paribus , with increases in the domain delegated to authorized control , and with reductions in the extent to which resource owners are involved in making decisions about the deployment of their resources . |
| 16 | Since Wilson 's teachings were a principal inspiration for the Morgan school , the twentieth century science of genetics may be said to have arisen within his Weismannist programme for the integration of evolutionary and cytological theorizing ( Mayr , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | This type of book may be said to ante-date the classical detective story , which we have called the template or original of most crime fiction . |
| 18 | Erm from a personal point of view , I do n't really find it credible that planking down fourteen hundred houses in the Vale of York could be said to improve landscape quality . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By and large , however , they argued that the behaviour of the electorate was shaped less by their stance to particular policy issues and more by generalised attitudes and beliefs about the party 's " image " , and they specifically pointed out " how little the mass of voters could be said to respond to the policy alternatives at Westminster in judging the claims of the rival parties " . |
| 21 | The same clash of common-places can be said to provide the possibility for everyday thinking , or deliberation . |
| 22 | For the uncommitted public , however , there were two effects of startling importance : sexual frankness took an immense leap forward and the image of women could be said to have been changed for ever . |
| 23 | Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise . |
| 24 | 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 . |