Example sentences of "can be said to " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 32 | The prime function of representative standing can be said to be to facilitate the protection of what might be called ‘ diffuse interests ’ , that is interests shared by many people . |
| 33 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 34 | Considering this , the domain specific dictionaries can be said to be less reliable , and based on assumptions about the accurate identification of the domain that may not always be applicable . |
| 35 | For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Or is there any sense in which those who oppose and vote against a particular policy or decision can be said to assent to it , or can be said to be governing themselves when they have voted against the policy that has been adopted ? |
| 38 | It is in this sense that a system of majority decision-taking , rather than any particular decision , can be said to be based on consent . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It is true , certainly , that feeling good for no particular reason , and the sensation of warmth , do not involve objects or contents that can be said to be determinate in a certain sense . |
| 41 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 42 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 43 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 44 | Although no meaning relation can be said to be totally without significance , by no means all conceivable relations are of equal general semantic interest . |
| 45 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 46 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
| 47 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 48 | In both cases , relevant information about the speaker 's voice can be said to be evidence in the case , going beyond what is contained in the written version . |
| 49 | In principle , therefore , even where the delay can be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 50 | In principle , therefore , even where the delay can be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 51 | The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge . |
| 52 | I am therefore of the opinion that the power of the court to make an order under section 236 is not limited to documents which can be said to be needed ‘ to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge ’ even if that may be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order . |
| 53 | In this matter of mouths , the Nile can be said to be modest . |
| 54 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |
| 55 | But even if the ‘ social ’ stage is moved forward ( tendentiously ) to the point at which these developed resources can be said to ‘ already ’ exist , it is impossible to overlook the extraordinary social history of the institution of systems for their further cultural development . |
| 56 | 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 ) . |
| 57 | Richard Titmuss was the outstanding exponent of the liberal socialist standpoint on the study of social policy ; indeed , he can be said to be virtually the founder of the systematic study of social policy . |
| 58 | Indeed , it can be said to be a consequence , but also a cause , of the growth of the academic subject with which this book is concerned . |
| 59 | It is hard to identify a dividing line at which making can be said to be completed and implementation to start . |
| 60 | Research findings suggest , moreover , that the people most likely to change their votes — the floating voters — are generally the least informed within the electorate , and are thus not people who can be said to be making careful choices between policies . |