Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ( 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 . )
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 If Shostakovich 's cycle of 15 symphonies can be said to represent a musical thread passing through the whole of the composer 's public life , then it can argued that his cycle of 15 string quartets represents the private persona of the man behind the mask from the beginning of his personal anguish in the late 1930s until his death in 1975 .
9 M. F. D. Young has pointed out that , while scientists of different persuasions can be said to form a professional group sharing assumptions and methodologies , the same is not by any means true of the humanities or the social sciences .
10 Despite the common cause announced in the introduction to the volume it is difficult in the present state of the art to see how the different methods and purposes can be said to constitute a unified and coherent approach to the literary text and thus to conceive of literary pragmatics as an " antidote to the fragmented specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the 20th century " ( dust jacket ) .
11 I suppose there is a trivial sense in which many ideas can be said to have ‘ opposites ’ .
12 If learning is defined as the improvement of specific performance following experience of that performance then organisations as well as individuals can be said to learn .
13 Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own .
14 But even if the ‘ social ’ stage is moved forward ( tendentiously ) to the point at which these developed resources can be said to ‘ already ’ exist , it is impossible to overlook the extraordinary social history of the institution of systems for their further cultural development .
15 Rather volcanoes can be said to have a morphological capacity representing the maximum size attainable by a particular type of eruption and associated ejecta .
16 In short , the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament .
17 Although in a world under divine guidance their actions can be said to actualize the Lord 's will , these actions can also be seen as the expression of women 's resentment and rebellion .
18 Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page .
19 Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation .
20 Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me .
21 The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other .
22 An organism works as an entire unit , and its genes can be said to have effects on the whole organism , even though each copy of any one gene exerts its immediate effects only within its own cell .
23 They confer a right to the ‘ equity ’ in the company and , in so far as members can be said to own the company , the ordinary shareholders are its proprietors , It is they who bear the lion 's share of the risk and they who in good years take the lion 's share of the profits ( after the directors and managers have been remunerated ) .
24 A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory .
25 Those who win regularly on significant issues can be said to be powerful .
26 It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained the abilities identified in a Statement of Attainment .
27 Finally and most significantly the closing sentence of the extract is well worth repeating : " It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained . "
28 Considering this , the domain specific dictionaries can be said to be less reliable , and based on assumptions about the accurate identification of the domain that may not always be applicable .
29 Rural communities in Wales or the North of England , Italian immigrant communities in London , or Pakistani communities in Rochdale , working-class communities in Bethnal Green or Liverpool , French Canadians in Quebec ; all these patterns and many others can be said to exist within industrial societies and yet do not clearly conform to the model presented earlier .
30 Except for the climbers and ramblers , which are amenable to being trained and grown on walls and fences , roses can be said to positively dislike being shut in .
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