Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] be said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 2 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 3 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 4 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 5 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 6 | There is a natural logic to such a structure in that management can reasonably be said to be about making the best use of the resources available and , to this extent , is a normal part of the clinical process . |
| 7 | We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational . |
| 8 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |
| 9 | In fact , black holes can now be said to be really matters of science fact rather than science fiction . |
| 10 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 11 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 12 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 13 | The novel 's role could then be said to be to question the way we think about culture . |
| 14 | When a three- or four-year-old child first comes to school , his real concern could almost be said to be his own identity . |
| 15 | Not all organizations that claim to be seeking control of the government can realistically be said to be doing so . |
| 16 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 17 | Surprisingly she discovered that funding for both film-makers and festival organisers is proving as elusive in the larger metropolitan centres as it is here where the state of gay and lesbian film culture can safely be said to be embryonic at best . |
| 18 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 19 | To the extent that Catholic Secondary School pupils have received the Sacraments of Initiation and are living in a community of faith , catechesis can validly be said to be a function of the Catholic School . |
| 20 | The development of computer-based public access systems to the holdings of one or more libraries , together with advances in online bibliographic searching , have increasingly led to the use of CAI programmes for user training , yet use of CAI programmes can hardly be said to be widespread . |
| 21 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |