Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] can be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by an extension of remedies and a flexible procedure it can be said that something resembling a system of public law is being developed . |
| 2 | In answer to this second argument it can be said that the education available to Desiderius of Cahors in the following century is not likely to have been any better , and yet he did write in the manner of earlier letter-writers . |
| 3 | In this respect it can be said that the methods of interpretation developed by the European Court match the particular characteristics of Community legal texts . |
| 4 | On Professor Stubbs 's behalf it can be said that the Report reflects a total view of society , of co-operation and tolerance between cultural and social groups , and that to achieve this aim all teachers and pupils need to understand clearly why contempt for other people 's dialects is wrong . |
| 5 | On the other hand it can be said in a grudging negative manner leaving the listener uncomfortable and possibly guilty at having made the request . |
| 6 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 8 | In this different culture it can be said that the basic dynamics of the Oedipal situation appear , albeit modified by the different structural and cultural arrangements . |
| 9 | On balance it can be said that the Industrial Revolution , with all its evils , brought a great increase in material prosperity to a majority of the members of the societies which it transformed . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , to some extent it can be said that it fulfils some of the functions of the preambles in Community texts to which I have just referred . |