Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is there any sense in which those who oppose and vote against a particular policy or decision can be said to assent to it , or can be said to be governing themselves when they have voted against the policy that has been adopted ? |
| 2 | Consequently , very few weaving centres in India or Pakistan can be said to constitute individual weaving groups . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite the common cause announced in the introduction to the volume it is difficult in the present state of the art to see how the different methods and purposes can be said to constitute a unified and coherent approach to the literary text and thus to conceive of literary pragmatics as an " antidote to the fragmented specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the 20th century " ( dust jacket ) . |
| 5 | By way of abbreviation of what is stated by the independent conditionals in ( 5 ) , cc can be said to have necessitated e , and e can be said to have been necessary to cc . |
| 6 | The leitmotifs for Giselle created by Adam and Perrot can be said to disclose her emotional development . |