Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Is saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ natural tiredness-behaviour for us , in spite of the fact that ‘ I 'm tired ’ , unlike yawning , even pretence yawning , can be said to be true or false ? |
| 34 | In this matter of mouths , the Nile can be said to be modest . |
| 35 | Well , no one movement can be said to be wrong , it is the repetition of a movement that begins to put a strain upon the body . |
| 36 | Miss Ellis writes cleverly and without wasting words , and her tale of Lili whose father is Egyptian and whose mother English , and whose own nature allows her to assume either nationality as the whim takes her , can be said to be compact and readable . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 41 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 42 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 43 | If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | In this way , individual operations can be shaped to be realistic rather than at odds with the likely outcome . |
| 46 | As long as Man 's intentions can be made to be good … |
| 47 | That a decision can be suspected to be counter productive is a cause for attention . |
| 48 | The social cost of these processes , added to by government policies , has been said to be the end of ‘ consensus politics ’ and a turning away from the notion that the social hierarchy can be perceived to be legitimate . |
| 49 | One problem for the non-native speaker of English is to decide when a group can be assumed to be familiar . |
| 50 | The approximate savings per unit can be assumed to be 1 chef at £6,000 per annum per unit . |
| 51 | It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value . |
| 52 | In this chapter , however , we are focussing attention on the behaviour when the effect of such departures can be assumed to be slight . |
| 53 | Other than in such cases of clear juxtaposition , dots can be assumed to be purposeful when there is graphic consistency , and especially when such consistency is combined with gentle expression . |
| 54 | Subroutines are usually written to be " transparent " to the calling routine ; that is , the processor registers such as accumulators and condition codes can be assumed to be unaltered by the subroutine call , unless they are explicitly part of the subroutine linkage . |
| 55 | The compressibility of the solvent is equal to the molar volume of the solvent in solution , V 1 , and can be assumed to be unchanged over a small range of pressures , thus giving |
| 56 | All rates of pay quoted can be assumed to be gross , i.e. inclusive of employer 's contributions etc . |
| 57 | As we noted , in the canonical situation of utterance , with the assumption of the unmarked deictic centre , RT can be assumed to be identical to CT ( Lyons ( 1977a : 685 ) calls this assumption deictic simultaneity ) . |
| 58 | This is the recognition of faith , and there is no way in which it can be demonstrated to be valid by appeal to merely historical argument about Jesus . |
| 59 | By searching a data file containing all the piece-part " boxes " for geometric domains , the simple relationship between parts can be established ; the boxes can be shown to be remote , adjacent , interfering and inserted . |
| 60 | Obviously , if vitamin A can be shown to be necessary for photoperiod detection by an extraocular receptor , it is likely that rhodopsins are at work . |