Example sentences of "[adv] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 2 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 3 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 4 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 5 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 6 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 7 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 8 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 9 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 10 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 11 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 12 | The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete . |
| 13 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |
| 14 | The same can not be said about languages in which the predicator frequently comes at the beginning of the clause and therefore represents an unmarked — or at least less marked — thematic choice . |
| 15 | However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less . |
| 16 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 17 | The same can not be said at Ford , which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday 's 1,180 . |
| 18 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 19 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 20 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 21 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 22 | Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population . |
| 23 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 24 | That may be so , but while a quarter of the public does not have complete confidence in the police that code can not be said to be working . |
| 25 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 26 | Someone who calls out ‘ Cooee ’ can not be said to be saying something that is true or false . |
| 27 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 28 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 29 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 30 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |