Example sentences of "be said [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously . |
| 2 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 3 | All in all , the technology could be said to be qualitatively transforming the threat to privacy which information systems , even manually sorted card indexes , have always posed . |
| 4 | And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included . |
| 5 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 6 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 7 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the edges are blurred and no one is sure just when youth may be said to be past and the second stage of adult life begun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 12 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 13 | Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so . |
| 14 | Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new . |
| 15 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 16 | The difference illustrated here could reasonably be said to be as much attitudinal as grammatical . |
| 17 | It is a consequence of this view that if two things are related to each other in any way , then neither of them , strictly , can be said to be ontologically independent of the other , for in such a case neither of them can be fully described without presupposing the existence of both . |
| 18 | In at least one case , Afghanistan , the regime could be said to be fully subordinate to Moscow . |
| 19 | Although no meaning relation can be said to be totally without significance , by no means all conceivable relations are of equal general semantic interest . |
| 20 | That being so , the direct object can not be said to be totally redundant . |
| 21 | No one procedure can be said to be absolutely right , and composers have used every compromise between these two extremes . |
| 22 | In fact , black holes can now be said to be really matters of science fact rather than science fiction . |
| 23 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 24 | Whilst any human cost of alcohol abuse could be said to be too great , it is important not to ignore both the economic and the social benefits associated with drinking . |
| 25 | Thus neither the causes nor consequences of this type of economic strategy can be said to be specifically local . |
| 26 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 27 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The speaker of [ 14 ] was a newsreader on Radio 4 : In a Gricean framework ( Grice 1981 ) , a speaker who produces an utterance knowing in advance that the hearer will not be able to establish its relevance would be said to be deliberately flouting the maxim of relation in order to achieve a special effect . |
| 30 | Richard Titmuss was the outstanding exponent of the liberal socialist standpoint on the study of social policy ; indeed , he can be said to be virtually the founder of the systematic study of social policy . |