Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] be say to be " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , contour ploughing , contour brushwood planting , and ditch-and-bund constructions could be said to be types of terrace .
2 Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed .
3 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 .
4 ( 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 . )
5 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 .
6 Thus each group of accounts might be said to be objective but they are not comparable .
7 Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children .
8 These technologies could be said to be neo-Fordist — that is they make use of information technologies but within a framework determined in the Fordist era .
9 Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually .
10 this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ .
11 The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit .
12 That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence .
13 On the grounds of its ancient lineage and apparently perennial vigour , the ‘ grand survivor ’ of all general theories might be said to be elite theory .
14 In general … rejection appears to increase with the development of disability and the continuation of caring … only a handful of these disabled mothers would be said to be receiving tending in a context which was predominantly loving …
15 It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about .
16 Those who win regularly on significant issues can be said to be powerful .
17 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 .
18 It should be noted moreover that such a Christology is not predicated upon saying that the difference between the sexes is of minimal importance , or simply to be compared with differences of race , with the implication that women can be said to be like Christ and so for example be ordained .
19 No accounts can be said to be ‘ true and accurate ’ .
20 If we deal with the situation of the wife 's car first , from the information provided there is nothing to indicate that she is involved in the business in any way so her car expenses could be said to be personal .
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