Example sentences of "[noun] be said [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Implicitly , if not explicitly , papal letters could with some truth be said to be ultimum quasi robur and firmamentum of the whole case .
2 It might be bending the law , but could the director and his wife be said to be ‘ the person making the car available to them ’ ?
3 Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question .
4 But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " .
5 Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments .
6 How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ?
7 I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ?
8 But in what sense can the conditions in prisons be said to be unjust ?
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