Example sentences of "can [adv] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 2 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 3 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 4 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 5 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 6 | The same can not be said about languages in which the predicator frequently comes at the beginning of the clause and therefore represents an unmarked — or at least less marked — thematic choice . |
| 7 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 8 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 9 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 10 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 11 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 12 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 13 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 14 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 15 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
| 16 | Some commentators have pointed out that , as can not be said of the Cadbury Committee 's report on the financial aspects of corporate governance , much legislation would be needed to implement the Green Paper 's proposals . |
| 17 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |
| 18 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , this can not be said of the licence fee . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , while his powers of mental control are impressive , this can not be said of his ability to control his physical body . |
| 21 | The same can not be said of Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus , the monetarist architect of the reform . |
| 22 | It can not be said of Barth that he did not know of evolution ! |
| 23 | In so far as it is the case that , in the classical doctrine of the trinity , it is said that the three persons are alike in all save their mutual relations , when we are speaking of Christ as God , as the second person of the trinity , it can not be said of Christ that he is ‘ male ’ . |
| 24 | The same can not be said of the ceremonial and ritual laws which occupy much of Leviticus and other parts of the Pentateuch . |
| 25 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 26 | My conception is related , also , in that both conceptions derive in a direct way from our pre-theoretical , first-person grasp of consciousness , as can not be said of any of behaviourism , causalism , or functionalism , nor really of the logico-linguistic criterion , derived though it is from Brentano . |
| 27 | The same can not be said of the keyboard itself which uses really nasty little keytops and has stick-on legends but at least they have been stuck on for you this time . |
| 28 | This can not be said of the ‘ Nutter ’ , whose conduct is the exception which proves the rules . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |