Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This analysis could be said to be self-serving , yet it is not without justification ; the president was never as powerful as the critics suggested . |
| 2 | How , theoretically , this connection could be said to work was rarely explained . |
| 3 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 4 | Erm my recommendation at that price would be to say to you , do n't buy , not at four thousand pounds , when your rent is one hundred pounds a year . |
| 5 | Many writers have expressed the view that intonation is used to convey our feelings and attitudes ; for example , the same sentence can be said in different ways , which might be labelled ‘ angry ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ grateful ’ , ‘ bored ’ , and so on . |
| 6 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 7 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 8 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 9 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 10 | The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice . |
| 11 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |
| 12 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |