Example sentences of "can be said [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 2 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 3 | In such a well studied and carefully recorded area , is there anything new that can be said about this Bronze Age landscape ? |
| 4 | The same can be said about Constant Lambert 's arrangement of Auber 's music for Ashton 's Les Rendezvous and Meyerbeer 's for Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 5 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 6 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 7 | ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 8 | One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream . |
| 9 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 10 | The same can be said of individual schools . |
| 11 | Leaving aside several other good attempts to explain the difference between causes and causal circumstances and their effects , and also what can be said of great obstacles in the way of these attempts ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 7 , 1979 ; Ayer , 1984a ; Sanford , 1976 , 1985 ; Papineau , 1985b ; Honderich , 1986 ) , let us return to and concentrate on our ordinary convictions about the difference . |
| 12 | Also straights can vary tremendously in quality although the same can be said of some compound feeds by the way ! |
| 13 | Which is more than can be said of some burger bars and ‘ diners ’ where the staff are young , dour and ca n't get home quick enough to swap their multinational uniforms for day-glo tracksuits and trainers ( I wonder where that fashion came from ? ) . |
| 14 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 15 | Much the same can be said of any reason for action . |
| 16 | In Chapters 2 and 3 we saw that the lexical resources of a language influence to a large extent what can be said in that language as well as how it can be said . |
| 17 | Many writers have expressed the view that intonation is used to convey our feelings and attitudes ; for example , the same sentence can be said in different ways , which might be labelled ‘ angry ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ grateful ’ , ‘ bored ’ , and so on . |
| 18 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |