Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [adv] be said to " in BNC.

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1 The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance .
2 The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ .
3 But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ?
4 In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect .
5 She moves ( for example ) between speaking of the crucifixion of Christ ( fact ) to the cosmic nature of Christ — which can hardly be said to be ‘ true ’ in the sense of an empirically known fact .
6 Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic .
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