Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ steersman ’ in a towed vehicle will be held to be ‘ driving ’ if the extent and degree of control could be said to correctly describe ‘ driving ’ ( R v MacDonagh , [ 1974 ] RTR 372 and McQuaid v Anderton , [ 1980 ] 3 All ER 540 ) . |
| 2 | Whereas any belief can be anchored , regardless of the content of the belief , only certain sons of belief could be said to be objectified . |
| 3 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 4 | ‘ If the purpose of life can be said to be replication , then we have both failed dismally . ’ |
| 5 | This type of book may be said to ante-date the classical detective story , which we have called the template or original of most crime fiction . |
| 6 | Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise . |
| 7 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 8 | The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child . |