Example sentences of "can be said [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 2 | ‘ Adaptive information ’ can be said to be inherited , if natural selection has built that information into the animal 's genes over the generations . |
| 3 | It is hard to identify a dividing line at which making can be said to be completed and implementation to start . |
| 4 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |
| 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 | It is in this sense that a system of majority decision-taking , rather than any particular decision , can be said to be based on consent . |
| 7 | I am therefore of the opinion that the power of the court to make an order under section 236 is not limited to documents which can be said to be needed ‘ to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge ’ even if that may be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order . |
| 8 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |