Example sentences of "it can [be] said [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the idea catches on , it can be said to propagate itself , spreading from brain to brain . |
| 4 | Thus the hypothesis provides a meaning to primitive ‘ goodness ’ and also suggests the period during which it can be said to have originated . |
| 5 | Warnock 's error is to have neglected the necessity , in any account of seeing , of the subject 's capability of noticing what it can be said to perceive . |
| 6 | In terms of the political system , it can be said to provide the means by which a government is chosen but , despite the results of the 1983 general election , the extent to which it will continue to be capable of providing a government ( at least in the way it has previously done ) remains under question . |
| 7 | If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature , it is the blind watchmaker . |