Example sentences of "can [be] said [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ideology is the science of ideas , of broad metaphysical or abstract speculation , then the best that can be said here is that Odilon Redon pursued a private visionary agenda . |
| 2 | Action can be said loosely to have all sorts of meanings . |
| 3 | First , it can be said not merely that C does not sue for breach of contract between A and B , but that his cause of action actually depends upon the contract not having been broken . |
| 4 | This solution induces vertigo if one thinks in terms of a self-contained realm of observation and inference ; does it mean that the most you can say of Einstein 's physics is that it has not yet been refuted , which can be said equally of ‘ Unicorns exist ’ ? |
| 5 | Or , to put it in another way , there must be at least two non-synonymous descriptive phrases of which it can be said both that they are co-extensive in respect of the given non-meaning and characterise this non-meaning in an essential way . |
| 6 | I think it can be said fairly , that the management response , in a political climate moving steadily to the right , was always likely to be too little too late : but that observation applies in many jurisdictions other than Texas , and has the advantage of being based on hindsight . |
| 7 | Regrettably it seems that the same can be said more than 20 years after Øster 's paper was published . |
| 8 | The large question of the limits upon royal power will be discussed in a later chapter , but it can be said now that , although the Crown put pressure upon both Houses , they were capable of obstinacy and independence . |