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

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1 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 .
2 But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it .
3 If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted .
4 Richard Titmuss was the outstanding exponent of the liberal socialist standpoint on the study of social policy ; indeed , he can be said to be virtually the founder of the systematic study of social policy .
5 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 .
6 Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed .
7 Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local .
8 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 .
9 No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes .
10 Although no meaning relation can be said to be totally without significance , by no means all conceivable relations are of equal general semantic interest .
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