Example sentences of "[noun] can be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 2 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 3 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 4 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 5 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 11 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 12 | If all these separate grams occur then the candidate string can be said to be allowable . |
| 13 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 14 | If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community . |
| 15 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 16 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 17 | Where this test is satisfied it is not conclusive proof that the person is ‘ driving ’ and it must be asked whether the person can be said to be ‘ driving ’ under the ordinary meaning of that word . |
| 18 | But even if the ‘ social ’ stage is moved forward ( tendentiously ) to the point at which these developed resources can be said to ‘ already ’ exist , it is impossible to overlook the extraordinary social history of the institution of systems for their further cultural development . |
| 19 | The prime function of representative standing can be said to be to facilitate the protection of what might be called ‘ diffuse interests ’ , that is interests shared by many people . |
| 20 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 21 | In principle , therefore , even where the delay can be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 22 | In principle , therefore , even where the delay can be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 23 | It is hard to identify a dividing line at which making can be said to be completed and implementation to start . |
| 24 | In this matter of mouths , the Nile can be said to be modest . |
| 25 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 26 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 27 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 28 | If the implications are reasonably consistent with observed phenomena , the theory can be said to ‘ explain' reality . |
| 29 | Well , no one movement can be said to be wrong , it is the repetition of a movement that begins to put a strain upon the body . |
| 30 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |