Example sentences of "[be] said [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public .
2 Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise .
3 Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified .
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 Neither of these books , however , could be said to be intent on revenge .
6 Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question .
7 A new form of layout can not , without more , be said to be capable of industrial application .
8 The attitude towards science in the Eagle could be said to be typical of UK comics generally .
9 For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity .
10 Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt .
11 Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population .
12 Only Richard Elliott , Headmaster of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Margate , and the Reverend William Stainer , chairman of the London Schools Board Classes for the Deaf , could be said to be representative of the dominant system of education then prevailing in British schools .
13 That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering .
14 Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic .
15 God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body .
16 Surprisingly she discovered that funding for both film-makers and festival organisers is proving as elusive in the larger metropolitan centres as it is here where the state of gay and lesbian film culture can safely be said to be embryonic at best .
17 The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child .
18 The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom .
19 As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation .
20 The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts .
21 This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves .
22 How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ?
23 ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death .
24 It is true , certainly , that feeling good for no particular reason , and the sensation of warmth , do not involve objects or contents that can be said to be determinate in a certain sense .
25 Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life .
26 If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community .
27 The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business .
28 We shall say that the word form cousin is general with respect to the distinction ‘ male cousin ’ / ’ female cousin ’ ; bank , on the other hand , will be said to be ambiguous with respect to the sense distinction ‘ financial institution ’ / ’ side of river ’ .
29 Now can it be said to be clear by the law of Scotland that the locus here is beyond what the legislature may assert right to affect by legislation against all whomsoever for the purpose of regulating methods of fishing ?
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