Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] can [be] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 2 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 3 | ‘ If the purpose of life can be said to be replication , then we have both failed dismally . ’ |
| 4 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 5 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |