Example sentences of "[noun sg] be say [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 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |