Example sentences of "be said [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously .
2 An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own .
3 And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included .
4 Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new .
5 A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) .
6 It is a consequence of this view that if two things are related to each other in any way , then neither of them , strictly , can be said to be ontologically independent of the other , for in such a case neither of them can be fully described without presupposing the existence of both .
7 In at least one case , Afghanistan , the regime could be said to be fully subordinate to Moscow .
8 That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant .
9 No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes .
10 Whilst any human cost of alcohol abuse could be said to be too great , it is important not to ignore both the economic and the social benefits associated with drinking .
11 And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space .
12 Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local .
13 Considering this , the domain specific dictionaries can be said to be less reliable , and based on assumptions about the accurate identification of the domain that may not always be applicable .
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