Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 2 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 3 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 4 | More will be said on that point later . |
| 5 | But more will be said of this ‘ delinquent fringe ’ later . |
| 6 | A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals . |
| 7 | More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al . |
| 8 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |
| 9 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 10 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 11 | But if you do live in a village you will almost certainly know your vicar , and the same could be said of inner-city communities . |
| 12 | This edition was found to be inadequate in several respects , and the same could be said of all editions until the eighteenth . |
| 13 | Much the same could be said of academic journals , for example , in which the development of a particular format contributes to the authority of any one article . |
| 14 | The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter . |
| 15 | The same would be said of two men with individual sights on the record book . |
| 16 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 17 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 18 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 19 | The same can be said of individual schools . |
| 20 | Also straights can vary tremendously in quality although the same can be said of some compound feeds by the way ! |
| 21 | Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’ |
| 22 | Much the same can be said of any reason for action . |
| 23 | The same can be said about Constant Lambert 's arrangement of Auber 's music for Ashton 's Les Rendezvous and Meyerbeer 's for Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 24 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 25 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 26 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |