Example sentences of "it can be said " in BNC.

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31 In broad psychological terms , it can be said that the male is achievement-orientated , directing his efforts towards a specific goal , whereas the woman is more concerned that the differing elements in her life should be in harmonious relation to one another , and that the circle of light in which she is centred includes them all .
32 On Professor Stubbs 's behalf it can be said that the Report reflects a total view of society , of co-operation and tolerance between cultural and social groups , and that to achieve this aim all teachers and pupils need to understand clearly why contempt for other people 's dialects is wrong .
33 Without engaging in speculation , it can be said that relationships of this type might have acted as a channel for ideas and opinions and represented a means by which influence could be exerted .
34 Warnock 's error is to have neglected the necessity , in any account of seeing , of the subject 's capability of noticing what it can be said to perceive .
35 I think it can be said fairly , that the management response , in a political climate moving steadily to the right , was always likely to be too little too late : but that observation applies in many jurisdictions other than Texas , and has the advantage of being based on hindsight .
36 Presumably the ability to attract good staff is , in itself , the mark of a good leader , but beyond that it can be said that Reagan himself was an indispensable part of the team .
37 However , the arguments which underlie the concept of justiciability can also be used to support the idea that in reviewing government decisions over which the courts are prepared to exercise control , they should only award remedies to aggrieved parties in cases where it can be said that the respondent has gone wrong in some fairly extreme way .
38 For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion .
39 To summarize this part of the argument , it can be said that the contradictions found in these forty interviews between housework satisfaction patterns and answers to the question ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ may be interpreted as evidence of class-differentiated linguistic styles and norms of feminine domesticity .
40 On the basis of this table , it can be said that the two variables are connected : a woman who declares a positive attitude to housework is likely also to have a high specification of standards and routines .
41 In this different culture it can be said that the basic dynamics of the Oedipal situation appear , albeit modified by the different structural and cultural arrangements .
42 It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is that — things are not what they seem .
43 7.13 > 2.63 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of alternative candidates within the domain of banking .
44 3.69 > 2.61 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word from alternative candidates within the domain of estate agents .
45 The t-score can be checked against statistical tables to determine the level of significance : i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
46 2.84 > 2.101 therefore : reject null hypothesis at 95% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 95% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
47 The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence .
48 Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited .
49 Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity .
50 We saw earlier that majority decision-taking , even in the context of direct participatory democracy , poses the problem of how those who oppose the majority position and vote against it can be said to be governing themselves .
51 The reply , then , it can be said , does not make use of a feature of effects independent of their being necessitated events , which feature can be used to argue that they are necessitated events .
52 But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus .
53 Since June 1991 , it can be said that the UK stock market has been fulfilling its predictive .
54 In general it can be said that he sought to maximise France 's role , and her freedom of choice in any given situation .
55 In terms of the aims set out in 1955 , it can be said that green belt policies have been fairly successful .
56 Whilst Kuhn maintains that science does progress in some sense , he is quite unambiguous in his denial that it can be said to progress towards the truth in any well-defined sense .
57 But by an extension of remedies and a flexible procedure it can be said that something resembling a system of public law is being developed .
58 I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle .
59 On the facts of the present case , however , it can be said , by analogy with Reg. v. Lawrence , that although the plaintiff permitted and allowed his property to be taken by the third party , he had not in truth consented to the third party becoming owner without giving a valid draft drawn by the building society for the price .
60 On the facts of the present case , however , it can be said , by analogy with Reg. v. Lawrence , that although the plaintiff permitted and allowed his property to be taken by the third party , he had not in truth consented to the third party becoming owner without giving a valid draft drawn by the building society for the price .
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