Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be said " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus drugs can be said to act on people and relax them ( 26 ) or bring them around ( 27 ) ; information can put some people in a favourable position with respect to others ( 28 ) ; and pointers can be seen as guiding people ( i.e. as somehow active or operative ) in the proper discharge of their duties . |
| 32 | The same clash of common-places can be said to provide the possibility for everyday thinking , or deliberation . |
| 33 | It should be noted moreover that such a Christology is not predicated upon saying that the difference between the sexes is of minimal importance , or simply to be compared with differences of race , with the implication that women can be said to be like Christ and so for example be ordained . |
| 34 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 35 | " 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 " . |
| 36 | Within the culture as a whole these popular activities can be said to have established a limited , unresolved but not entirely unsatisfactory position . |
| 37 | No accounts can be said to be ‘ true and accurate ’ . |
| 38 | To ask whether the meeting had caused this conversation is meaningless , for spontaneously arising conversations can be said to have many different causes . |