Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 5 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 6 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 7 | There is a natural logic to such a structure in that management can reasonably be said to be about making the best use of the resources available and , to this extent , is a normal part of the clinical process . |
| 8 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 9 | At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price . |
| 10 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |
| 11 | With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment . |
| 12 | It is true that , as the term is commonly used , a representative , as opposed to a delegate , is not mandated to speak or vote in particular ways ; but it has always been a puzzle to me to understand in what ways such a person can then be said to represent , or speak for , those who sent him/her there . |
| 13 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 14 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 15 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 16 | That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant . |
| 17 | That may be so , but while a quarter of the public does not have complete confidence in the police that code can not be said to be working . |
| 18 | As should be clear , this does not mean that Spenser was ‘ a typical Elizabethan ’ ( if such a creature can ever be said to exist ) . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is doubtful that an inanimate entity can meaningfully be said to have interests , or if it could , what they would be . |
| 20 | The pure gothic novel can safely be said to have started with Horace Walpole , the rich and eccentric son of the first Prime Minister of England . |
| 21 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 22 | Not all organizations that claim to be seeking control of the government can realistically be said to be doing so . |
| 23 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 24 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 25 | Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA . |
| 26 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 27 | So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage . |
| 28 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 29 | Even if the column baseline is zero , the column height can not be said to represent anything real . |
| 30 | Finally , there are two ‘ naturalistic ’ conductors who apparently effortlessly allow the work to unfold in a way which becomes increasingly satisfying upon repetition : Kubelik on DG ( only available as part of a highly recommended ten-CD set of the complete symphonies ) , and now Haitink , whose new BPO version can safely be said to supersede his earlier Concertgebouw version . |