Example sentences of "can [be] said to be " in BNC.

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61 As the balloon expands , the distance between any two spots increases , but there is no spot that can be said to be the center of the expansion .
62 The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ .
63 Someone in possession with the consent of them both can be said to be in possession ‘ with consent of the owner . ’
64 A major question posed is the extent to which the professional bodies , including the Engineering Council and the institutions , can be said to be performing a mediating role between the members of the profession and the government ; that is representing the memberships ' interests while also entering into agreements with the government which are likely to limit their members ' freedom of action .
65 No accounts can be said to be ‘ true and accurate ’ .
66 There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il .
67 Of course , as recognized by the judge in the above case , if the structure is dictated by function then it can be said to be an uncopyrightable idea although , often that will not be so ; there will be a variety of potential structures possible .
68 To some extent , an important factor is the computer program itself , whether it is a commonplace program , carrying out mundane operations , or whether it is designed to do something novel , whether the purpose of the program can be said to be in the nature of a trade secret .
69 If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted .
70 Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer .
71 The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause .
72 This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort .
73 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 .
74 Joan can be said to be responding to Carol 's relatively heavy use of Creole by increasing the " Creole feature rating " of her own utterances : thus the two " negotiate a language " which is identifiable as " Creole " or " Patois " by virtue of there being Creole features in the speech of all parties , though to differing degrees .
75 As we noted , anaphora concerns the use of ( usually ) a pronoun to refer to the same referent as some prior term , as in : ( 90 ) Harry 's a sweetheart ; he 's so considerate where Harry and he can be said to be co-referential , i.e. pick out the same referent .
76 A market can be said to be a place where buyers and sellers meet to make an exchange of goods ( or services ) .
77 It believes that everything in the world is related to everything else in such an intimate way that only the whole is , can be said to be real , and only by seeing everything in its associated network of the whole to which it belongs , of the complete whole to which it belongs , can it be understood .
78 Two is that there , in some sense , some perhaps rather extended and difficult sense , this totality of everything which we have to take by storm directly if any detail of the world is every to be understood , can be said to be mental .
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