Example sentences of "be said [prep] be a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 X will be said to be a hyponym of Y ( and , by the same token , Y a superordinate of X ) if A is f(X) entails but is not entailed by A is f(Y) :
2 To the extent that Catholic Secondary School pupils have received the Sacraments of Initiation and are living in a community of faith , catechesis can validly be said to be a function of the Catholic School .
3 There are many alternative implementations of trie memory , in fact the 26-way tree just described could be said to be a type of trie .
4 But how may this be said to be a Christology ?
5 English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another .
6 A market can be said to be a place where buyers and sellers meet to make an exchange of goods ( or services ) .
7 In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect .
8 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 .
9 A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification .
10 One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey .
11 I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’
12 The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform .
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