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

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1 In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed , with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness .
2 Presumably the ability to attract good staff is , in itself , the mark of a good leader , but beyond that it can be said that Reagan himself was an indispensable part of the team .
3 Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited .
4 Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity .
5 Whilst Kuhn maintains that science does progress in some sense , he is quite unambiguous in his denial that it can be said to progress towards the truth in any well-defined sense .
6 I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle .
7 But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband .
8 If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted .
9 There is a danger if the settlor has power to remove trustees that it can be said he controls the trust .
10 ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her .
11 In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment .
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