Example sentences of "[adv] be said to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 2 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 3 | That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant . |
| 4 | Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so . |
| 5 | The difference illustrated here could reasonably be said to be as much attitudinal as grammatical . |
| 6 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 7 | In fact , black holes can now be said to be really matters of science fact rather than science fiction . |
| 8 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |
| 9 | 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 . |