Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | The word we use for the overall behaviour of the pitch in these examples is tone ; a one-syllable word can be said with either a level tone or a moving tone . |
| 3 | This analysis could be said to be self-serving , yet it is not without justification ; the president was never as powerful as the critics suggested . |
| 4 | How , theoretically , this connection could be said to work was rarely explained . |
| 5 | Our simple macroeconomy may be said to be in equilibrium when aggregate demand ( i.e. the total demand for final goods and services in the economy ) is equal to national income ( i.e. the total value of all final goods and services produced ) : this is often referred to as equilibrium in the goods market . |
| 6 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 7 | A second sense in which the inner-city phonology may be said to be complex is in the incidence of lexical items that have two alternative vowel pronunciations quite distinct phonetically and phonemically from each other . |
| 8 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
| 9 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 10 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 11 | Erm my recommendation at that price would be to say to you , do n't buy , not at four thousand pounds , when your rent is one hundred pounds a year . |
| 12 | The prime function of representative standing can be said to be to facilitate the protection of what might be called ‘ diffuse interests ’ , that is interests shared by many people . |
| 13 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 14 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 15 | Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local . |
| 16 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 17 | Well , no one movement can be said to be wrong , it is the repetition of a movement that begins to put a strain upon the body . |
| 18 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested … in whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale ’ . |
| 19 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested in determining whether a universal human proclivity toward aggression exists , or whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale . |
| 20 | When looked at in this distributed way , any one gene can be said to ‘ meet ’ another when they find themselves sharing a body . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 23 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 24 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 25 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 26 | The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice . |
| 27 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |
| 28 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 29 | The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ . |
| 30 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |