Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] said have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 2 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 3 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 4 | Chomsky ( 1957 : 100 ) goes even further , for he holds that to is a morpheme that " can hardly be said to have a meaning in any independent sense " . |
| 5 | English can therefore be said to have a grammatical category of number . |