Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [modal v] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is such questions which one must ask of Christians , particularly Christians who would be feminist , who explain that the creation story ( or any other part of the Christian story which may be said to be sexist ) is to them a ‘ true myth ’ . |
2 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
3 | ‘ Practically the only good thing which can be said about the patronage system , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ is that it prevents dioceses selling off or pulling down at least some few of their beautiful buildings . ’ |
4 | On the other hand , there is information which may be said to be external to the company , commonly referred to as market information . |
5 | A deictic element is not a term as such , but some part of the utterance which might be said to be deictic . |
6 | In Chapters 2 and 3 we saw that the lexical resources of a language influence to a large extent what can be said in that language as well as how it can be said . |