Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] said to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 2 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 3 | There are many alternative implementations of trie memory , in fact the 26-way tree just described could be said to be a type of trie . |
| 4 | One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey . |
| 5 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 6 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 7 | There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ . |
| 8 | In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect . |
| 9 | But for its lack of references , which surely are essential for the chapters on spectroscopy , the book that could be said to be the best is Ralph and Joan Fessenden 's Organic Chemistry ( Willard Grant , 2nd ed ) . |
| 10 | Merleau-Ponty , on the other hand , arguing that only one Marxism , Stalinism , could be said to be the product of actual history , rejected any possibility of trying to define a new , more genuine Marxism as the return-to-Marxists tried to do . |
| 11 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 12 | To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results . |
| 13 | ‘ The case may be said to be a good example of the stringency with which the courts scrutinise transactions of guarantee entered into at the instance of a debtor who is likely to be in a position to exert influence on the surety and in circumstances in which the surety can derive no conceivable benefit from the transaction . |
| 14 | This may be said to be the effect of his thought that probably there are no decent seats left . |
| 15 | Belief … may be said to be the state of mind of a person who says to himself : " I can not say I know for certain that these goods are stolen , but there can be no other reasonable conclusion in the light of circumstances … |
| 16 | X will be said to be a hyponym of Y ( and , by the same token , Y a superordinate of X ) if A is f(X) entails but is not entailed by A is f(Y) : |
| 17 | Indeed , it can be said to be a consequence , but also a cause , of the growth of the academic subject with which this book is concerned . |
| 18 | A market can be said to be a place where buyers and sellers meet to make an exchange of goods ( or services ) . |
| 19 | From a socio-economic point of view , the low-input/low-output farm , which predominates especially , but not exclusively in the Mediterranean and upland regions , can be said to be an adaptation to the extremely difficult conditions under which it operates . |
| 20 | Of course , as recognized by the judge in the above case , if the structure is dictated by function then it can be said to be an uncopyrightable idea although , often that will not be so ; there will be a variety of potential structures possible . |
| 21 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 22 | If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing . |
| 23 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 24 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 25 | As the balloon expands , the distance between any two spots increases , but there is no spot that can be said to be the center of the expansion . |