Example sentences of "[noun] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 2 | Action can be said loosely to have all sorts of meanings . |
| 3 | There is a common element of pressure which by analogy can be said to justify a claim for repayment . |
| 4 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 5 | Also consider whether the defendant can be said to have waived limitation , raising an estoppel . |
| 6 | Consequently , very few weaving centres in India or Pakistan can be said to constitute individual weaving groups . |
| 7 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 8 | Penzias does not , though , embrace the philosophical heresy that computers can be said to reason , even if public credulity , reinforced by science fiction , often imputes sentient powers to them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( Whether old people living in residential homes can be said to be living in the community is a separate issue , some aspects of which are considered in Chapter 7 . ) |
| 14 | As for MacDonald 's diary … a good deal can be said . |
| 15 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 16 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Much more evidence needs to be uncovered , if indeed it exists , much more work to be done even in available sources before the origins and development of this sort of muftilik can be said to have been fully studied . |
| 19 | While neither Act can be said to define what is the primary meaning of ‘ debentures , ’ both give some pointers to what , both in law and in commerce , would , for most purposes be regarded as their essential feature ; namely that debentures are a type of transferable security ( in this respect resembling shares ) whereby a company can raise finance in the form of loan capital instead of share capital . |
| 20 | Finally , and to further compound the confusion , there were a number of differing schools or sects — and even , apparently , sects within sects — that constituted the Judaic orthodoxy of the time , if , indeed , any such orthodoxy can be said to have existed . |
| 21 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 22 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 23 | Errors of fact or law will have to stand , provided the expert can be said to have asked himself " the right question " . |
| 24 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 25 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 26 | By way of abbreviation of what is stated by the independent conditionals in ( 5 ) , cc can be said to have necessitated e , and e can be said to have been necessary to cc . |
| 27 | If , for example , a mother has been forced to resort to repetitious shouting , whining appeals and querulous naggings , the child can be said to have learned — learned to ‘ turn off ’ what is being said . |
| 28 | Many of these Whig Jacobite tracts can be said to reflect commonwealth principles , in the sense that they argued for a monarchy which would be severely limited . |
| 29 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 30 | And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ? |