Example sentences of "[noun] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicitly , if not explicitly , papal letters could with some truth be said to be ultimum quasi robur and firmamentum of the whole case . |
| 2 | It might be bending the law , but could the director and his wife be said to be ‘ the person making the car available to them ’ ? |
| 3 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 4 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
| 5 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 6 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
| 7 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
| 8 | Why can not the same thing be said about extension ? |
| 9 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |
| 10 | The same can no doubt be said of any ‘ outillage mentale ’ . |
| 11 | But in what sense can the conditions in prisons be said to be unjust ? |
| 12 | Could Belfast be said in this sense to be a single speech community separate from Lurgan ? or do Lurgan speakers show sensitivity to the same sets of variables ? |