Example sentences of "be say [prep] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although both could be said to be reacting against the ossification of Stalinism , the subjectivist and ultra-objectivist paths that they followed were antithetical . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former . |
| 4 | In such a situation , the participants may , in fact , ‘ speak topically ’ , but they might also be said to be speaking on a topic . |
| 5 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 6 | Only Geoffrey , tugging at his hair , sniffing , thumping the tablecloth , could be said to be concentrating on the person beside him . |
| 7 | In this way Foucault could be said to be returning to Marx in removing the subject from the centre of history , were it not for the fact that he dispenses with the consolations of Marx 's historicism also . |
| 8 | Joan can be said to be responding to Carol 's relatively heavy use of Creole by increasing the " Creole feature rating " of her own utterances : thus the two " negotiate a language " which is identifiable as " Creole " or " Patois " by virtue of there being Creole features in the speech of all parties , though to differing degrees . |