Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] can be said " in BNC.

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1 This is well exemplified in Fokine 's choreography fur the first Nocturne in Les Sylphides , where it can be said that the corps de ballet are marking the overall rhythm lasting sixteen or thirty-two bars , whilst the three soloists represent the shorter rhythmical phrases lasting four to ) eight bars .
2 This in turn led to DoE Circular 22/83 which recommends that planing gain is only reasonable where it can be said to fairly and directly relate to the actual development being proposed .
3 Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer .
4 For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion .
5 Even if it can be said that , in the course of his duty , a policeman will become hardened to certain sorts of ritual taunts and insults , there is no reason to doubt that he can also experience harassment and distress .
6 If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature , it is the blind watchmaker .
7 At least the locked door designed to keep him in also keeps his enemies out , if he can be said to have any enemies .
8 Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable .
9 But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion .
10 This might well be the case , but it still does not answer the question whether it can be said that there is no morality without religion .
11 Consequently the question asked is not whether antitrust decisions lead to the greatest economic efficiency but whether it can be said , given the non-economic reasons for antitrust policy , that these decisions do any serious harm .
12 But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it .
13 Buckley LJ in the Court of Appeal provided some useful guidance as to precisely what rights or powers the individual must have before he can be said to have transferred or given the opportunity to another person so that the other person can make the gain .
14 The point is not to approach the texts with preconceived ideas about matters such as what constitutes an argument , what provides evidence for a claim , or when we can be said to know something .
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