Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be said [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is submitted on behalf of the Attorney-General that there was no delay , either in the investigation of the complaint against the respondent or in the bringing of proceedings against him which could properly be said to amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 2 | Given the freedom which the parties enjoy in a common law system in the matter of gathering evidence , their resort to foreign procedures could not be said to interfere with English procedures or the control over those procedures which the English court would exercise . |
| 3 | A review of recent research led Coleman ( 1986 ) to conclude that reminiscence therapy could not be said to stand on a very solid base , and that it is important not to make generalizations about the value of reminiscence to any particular individual . |
| 4 | The resistance of Ulster had not been created by British Unionists and could hardly be said to depend on them , but the knowledge of support was certainly useful to Carson and Craig in giving their plans for rebellion an official look . |
| 5 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 6 | Answer ( b ) is an example of ellipsis because does can not be said to substitute for sing in the above question . |
| 7 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 8 | As long as expenditure can not be said to apply in support of specific candidates , national party campaigns do not fall foul of the election finance restrictions . |
| 9 | Jesus is attached to him , but can hardly be said to confide in him . |