Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Action can be said loosely to have all sorts of meanings . |
| 2 | There is a common element of pressure which by analogy can be said to justify a claim for repayment . |
| 3 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 4 | Also consider whether the defendant can be said to have waived limitation , raising an estoppel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As for MacDonald 's diary … a good deal can be said . |
| 9 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Errors of fact or law will have to stand , provided the expert can be said to have asked himself " the right question " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism . |
| 23 | If all these separate grams occur then the candidate string can be said to be allowable . |
| 24 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 25 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 26 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 27 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 28 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 29 | Where this test is satisfied it is not conclusive proof that the person is ‘ driving ’ and it must be asked whether the person can be said to be ‘ driving ’ under the ordinary meaning of that word . |
| 30 | It is in this sense that higher education can be said to institutionalize not the structures of knowledge , but the experience of uncertainty . |