Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [be] said [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be objected that my argument defines individualism too narrowly ; for rather than contrasting the properties of individuals as such with those of social wholes , I have focussed on a particular range of traits , and in doing so may be said to have neglected properties to which the individualist can legitimately appeal . |
| 2 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 3 | Needless to say , a full-scale review of the moral justification of private property will not be undertaken , but enough will be said to indicate that there are substantial difficulties in the way of providing a satisfactory justification of corporate power by reference to the shareholders ' supposed moral ownership rights . |
| 4 | ( de Lauretis 1984 , p. 163 ) The impact of this shift on film-making has been that except for overtly feminist films , cinematic practices in the independent sector no longer necessarily can be said to construct a male gaze . |
| 5 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 6 | It hardly can be said to possess discrete ‘ generations ’ , or to consist of discrete ‘ organisms ’ , at all . |
| 7 | But both can be said to have a basic requirement for nitrogen , which they incorporate into their own proteins and nucleic acids . |
| 8 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 9 | The men also can be said to live up to how they have been described . |
| 10 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 11 | Christians as a whole however may be said to have been slow to appropriate the results of textual criticism and historical research . |