Example sentences of "[noun prp] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , very few weaving centres in India or Pakistan can be said to constitute individual weaving groups . |
| 2 | The fiction of Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon can be said to approximate most closely to these new literary values . |
| 3 | If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community . |
| 4 | In this matter of mouths , the Nile can be said to be modest . |
| 5 | Although Symphonic Variations was not intended as a ritual , Ashton can be said to have used it as such for six dancers who were practising their art in the spacious simplicity of Sophie Fedorovitch 's décor . |
| 6 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 7 | There are also bridges at Altdorf where the Reik divides into a number of lesser channels ; hence none of the bridges at Altdorf can be said to cross the entire Reik . |
| 8 | Joan can be said to be responding to Carol 's relatively heavy use of Creole by increasing the " Creole feature rating " of her own utterances : thus the two " negotiate a language " which is identifiable as " Creole " or " Patois " by virtue of there being Creole features in the speech of all parties , though to differing degrees . |
| 9 | As such Reports go , therefore , Younger can be said to have been fairly effective , in spite of being limited by being unable to consider public sector threats to privacy . |