Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the culture as a whole these popular activities can be said to have established a limited , unresolved but not entirely unsatisfactory position . |
| 2 | ( Whether old people living in residential homes can be said to be living in the community is a separate issue , some aspects of which are considered in Chapter 7 . ) |
| 3 | Many of these Whig Jacobite tracts can be said to reflect commonwealth principles , in the sense that they argued for a monarchy which would be severely limited . |
| 4 | M. F. D. Young has pointed out that , while scientists of different persuasions can be said to form a professional group sharing assumptions and methodologies , the same is not by any means true of the humanities or the social sciences . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Neither the artisanal nor the post-artisanal phase of market relations in cultural production can be said to have ended . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism . |
| 10 | But even if the ‘ social ’ stage is moved forward ( tendentiously ) to the point at which these developed resources can be said to ‘ already ’ exist , it is impossible to overlook the extraordinary social history of the institution of systems for their further cultural development . |
| 11 | All conceptions involving the cultivation and satisfaction of the so-called expensive tastes are harder to satisfy , and the Rawlsian theory can be said to discriminate against them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So , all in all , only about three-quarters of those who changed their minds with additional information can be said to have genuinely interpreted that information , and made a rational choice . |
| 14 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 15 | In addition the learned judge did not think that a nationalised industry can be said to accumulate a substance for its own purposes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As for MacDonald 's diary … a good deal can be said . |
| 18 | Plentiful capitulary material means that a good deal can be said about Charles as a ruler . |
| 19 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 20 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 21 | In this way , the legal system can be said to become ‘ self-reflexive ’ : it develops the capacity to reformulate the rules by which it functions . |
| 22 | Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local . |
| 23 | In this model , as with others discussed in the remainder of this chapter , changes in aggregate demand can be said to have real output effects because of imperfect competition ( that is , price stickiness ) , whereas real effects of such changes discussed in the previous chapter arose because of imperfect information . |
| 24 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 25 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 26 | In this sense , hot coffee can be said to share a power to dissolve sugar with steam , certain chemicals , and so on . |
| 27 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 28 | The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ . |
| 29 | Considering this , the domain specific dictionaries can be said to be less reliable , and based on assumptions about the accurate identification of the domain that may not always be applicable . |
| 30 | The major themes of modern ideology can be said to contain the potentiality for criticism of royalty , for values of individual achievement and democratic equality must contain their own implicit potentiality for criticizing inherited privilege and aristocratic power . |