Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | The word we use for the overall behaviour of the pitch in these examples is tone ; a one-syllable word can be said with either a level tone or a moving tone . |
| 5 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 6 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 7 | But even if the ‘ social ’ stage is moved forward ( tendentiously ) to the point at which these developed resources can be said to ‘ already ’ exist , it is impossible to overlook the extraordinary social history of the institution of systems for their further cultural development . |
| 8 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 11 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 12 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 13 | Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When looked at in this distributed way , any one gene can be said to ‘ meet ’ another when they find themselves sharing a body . |
| 20 | Many writers have expressed the view that intonation is used to convey our feelings and attitudes ; for example , the same sentence can be said in different ways , which might be labelled ‘ angry ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ grateful ’ , ‘ bored ’ , and so on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice . |
| 23 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |
| 24 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 25 | The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ . |
| 26 | Considering this , the domain specific dictionaries can be said to be less reliable , and based on assumptions about the accurate identification of the domain that may not always be applicable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 29 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 30 | Those who win regularly on significant issues can be said to be powerful . |