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

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1 ‘ Practically the only good thing which can be said about the patronage system , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ is that it prevents dioceses selling off or pulling down at least some few of their beautiful buildings . ’
2 The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom .
3 The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge .
4 I am therefore of the opinion that the power of the court to make an order under section 236 is not limited to documents which can be said to be needed ‘ to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge ’ even if that may be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order .
5 Research findings suggest , moreover , that the people most likely to change their votes — the floating voters — are generally the least informed within the electorate , and are thus not people who can be said to be making careful choices between policies .
6 To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc .
7 There can be said to be at least three groups of predator assemblage distinguishable by this form of analysis .
8 The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm .
9 There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il .
10 In the sense that these parties have provided the electorate with a clear either-or choice in both countries for many years , they can be said to be doing their job .
11 Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer .
12 It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess .
13 This in turn led to DoE Circular 22/83 which recommends that planing gain is only reasonable where it can be said to fairly and directly relate to the actual development being proposed .
14 And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included .
15 We saw earlier that majority decision-taking , even in the context of direct participatory democracy , poses the problem of how those who oppose the majority position and vote against it can be said to be governing themselves .
16 Indeed , it can be said to be a consequence , but also a cause , of the growth of the academic subject with which this book is concerned .
17 Of course , as recognized by the judge in the above case , if the structure is dictated by function then it can be said to be an uncopyrightable idea although , often that will not be so ; there will be a variety of potential structures possible .
18 If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted .
19 For example : it can be said at once — and briefly — that the probability that she was massively involved in the murder of Darnley is very strong .
20 7.13 > 2.63 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of alternative candidates within the domain of banking .
21 3.69 > 2.61 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word from alternative candidates within the domain of estate agents .
22 The t-score can be checked against statistical tables to determine the level of significance : i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
23 2.84 > 2.101 therefore : reject null hypothesis at 95% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 95% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
24 It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes .
25 But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion .
26 It can be said in his favour that the Michael X set seemed very like a fraud and a circus , and that these people had no deep connection with the politics of Trinidad .
27 On the other hand it can be said in a grudging negative manner leaving the listener uncomfortable and possibly guilty at having made the request .
28 It can be said in conclusion that these developments have become central to the future of the ‘ GIS revolution ’ of the late 1980s , since it is now clear that the massive ( and desirable ) growth of the use of GIS can not be supported without improvements to the use environment experienced by the user .
29 His shiksas and replicas , hostilities and escapes , have taken part in a great game of long duration , and he can be said to be reviewing the state of play .
30 But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it .
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