Example sentences of "[noun] can [be] said to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 2 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 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 . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 9 | If all these separate grams occur then the candidate string can be said to be allowable . |
| 10 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 13 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is hard to identify a dividing line at which making can be said to be completed and implementation to start . |
| 20 | In this matter of mouths , the Nile can be said to be modest . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local . |
| 24 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 25 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 26 | ‘ If the purpose of life can be said to be replication , then we have both failed dismally . ’ |
| 27 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested … in whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale ’ . |
| 28 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested in determining whether a universal human proclivity toward aggression exists , or whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale . |
| 29 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 30 | In both cases , relevant information about the speaker 's voice can be said to be evidence in the case , going beyond what is contained in the written version . |