Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] can be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 2 | All conceptions involving the cultivation and satisfaction of the so-called expensive tastes are harder to satisfy , and the Rawlsian theory can be said to discriminate against them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this way , the legal system can be said to become ‘ self-reflexive ’ : it develops the capacity to reformulate the rules by which it functions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ . |