Example sentences of "and can be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , many retail outlets fall between these two extremes and can be said to operate a medium quality trading policy . |
| 2 | Two are highly valued , namely lidya ( shy , timid , ashamed ) and höntugen ( frightened , fearful ) , and can be said to be integral aspects of the Chewong person ( Howell 1988 ) . |
| 3 | The other three are subject to severe cultural condemnation and can be said to represent the non-Chewong person , by which I mean people outside the wider social universe of humans and superhumans , in effect Malays and Chinese . |
| 4 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 5 | If , as is sometimes done , things are assimilated to events , we can speak of particulars as events , and of the latter as being " temporal " in the sense that every event exhibits a pattern of change in some direction , and can be said to occur simultaneously with , or before , or after , some other event . |