Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 2 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 3 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |
| 4 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 5 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 6 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 7 | If all these separate grams occur then the candidate string can be said to be allowable . |
| 8 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 9 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 10 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 11 | Where this test is satisfied it is not conclusive proof that the person is ‘ driving ’ and it must be asked whether the person can be said to be ‘ driving ’ under the ordinary meaning of that word . |
| 12 | The prime function of representative standing can be said to be to facilitate the protection of what might be called ‘ diffuse interests ’ , that is interests shared by many people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In principle , therefore , even where the delay can be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 15 | In principle , therefore , even where the delay can be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 16 | It is hard to identify a dividing line at which making can be said to be completed and implementation to start . |
| 17 | If the implications are reasonably consistent with observed phenomena , the theory can be said to ‘ explain' reality . |
| 18 | Well , no one movement can be said to be wrong , it is the repetition of a movement that begins to put a strain upon the body . |
| 19 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |
| 20 | Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local . |
| 21 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 22 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 23 | ‘ If the purpose of life can be said to be replication , then we have both failed dismally . ’ |
| 24 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested … in whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale ’ . |
| 25 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested in determining whether a universal human proclivity toward aggression exists , or whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale . |
| 26 | The word we use for the overall behaviour of the pitch in these examples is tone ; a one-syllable word can be said with either a level tone or a moving tone . |
| 27 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 28 | In both cases , relevant information about the speaker 's voice can be said to be evidence in the case , going beyond what is contained in the written version . |
| 29 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
| 30 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |