Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] be said to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 2 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 3 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 4 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 5 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 6 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 7 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 8 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 9 | Political parties themselves can not be said to have existed before 1679 . |