Example sentences of "[pron] can [be] said [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 2.84 > 2.101 therefore : reject null hypothesis at 95% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 95% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
2 7.13 > 2.63 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of alternative candidates within the domain of banking .
3 3.69 > 2.61 therefore reject null hypothesis at 99% significance level ; i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word from alternative candidates within the domain of estate agents .
4 The t-score can be checked against statistical tables to determine the level of significance : i.e. it can be said with 99% confidence that the technique selects the correct word in favour of other candidate words .
5 It can be said in conclusion that these developments have become central to the future of the ‘ GIS revolution ’ of the late 1980s , since it is now clear that the massive ( and desirable ) growth of the use of GIS can not be supported without improvements to the use environment experienced by the user .
6 What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style .
7 But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example .
8 What can be said about fluoride is that at concentrations of even less than one part per million ( the official dose ) it can cause toxic reactions in sensitive people and recent reassessments of the fluoridation scene suggest that this measure may be much more harmful to health than has been hitherto realized .
9 With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case .
10 A nihilistic view about the policy implications of recent theoretical work in the area of vertical restraints would be that , since almost anything can happen , nothing can be said about policy .
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