Example sentences of "[adv] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( de Lauretis 1984 , p. 163 ) The impact of this shift on film-making has been that except for overtly feminist films , cinematic practices in the independent sector no longer necessarily can be said to construct a male gaze . |
| 2 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 3 | It hardly can be said to possess discrete ‘ generations ’ , or to consist of discrete ‘ organisms ’ , at all . |
| 4 | But both can be said to have a basic requirement for nitrogen , which they incorporate into their own proteins and nucleic acids . |
| 5 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 6 | The men also can be said to live up to how they have been described . |
| 7 | my Lord there may not be er if you 've got no money to do anything with or no money to , to , to operate in even if the , remotely vaguely efficient way , that you , how can be said you 'll capable of competing |
| 8 | WP Whatever else can be said about the East European regimes , they clearly failed to motivate their populations . |