Example sentences of "[noun] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , in what sense can all these different universes be said to exist ? |
| 2 | Can societies which lack either law courts or judges be said to have a system of law ? |
| 3 | Then , whereas the concertos of Haydn represent a tiny and relatively insignificant fraction of his output , three of Mozart 's five violin concertos rank among the ‘ top ten ’ works in that repertory ; his magnificent Clarinet Concerto has never been surpassed ; his concertos for horn and flute are still among the finest works for their respective instruments ; while he may without exaggeration be said to have ‘ invented ’ the piano concerto as we know it , with his 23 original masterpieces in the genre . |
| 4 | How can a soldier , haggard from the hell of the trenches , who was shot for falling asleep at his post be said now to have been treated fairly ? |
| 5 | Implicitly , if not explicitly , papal letters could with some truth be said to be ultimum quasi robur and firmamentum of the whole case . |
| 6 | Where the requirements of the model are satisfied it can thus with some truth be said that there is an ‘ utter dispersion of power ’ . |
| 7 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 8 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 9 | Transnational involvement in the Egyptian food system can by no stretch of the imagination be said to have improved Egypt 's long-term food security . |
| 10 | To what extent can these concepts be said to influence some of our arts curriculum practices ? |
| 11 | It might be bending the law , but could the director and his wife be said to be ‘ the person making the car available to them ’ ? |
| 12 | But if every work of art is simply the expression of the artist 's intuition , it is evident that an absolute or complete pattern would be useless , since the intuitions of two different minds could never be expressed by the same form : nor can anything in art be said to have been ‘ done once for all ’ , since if it were ‘ done again ’ by another hand — used , that is , to express the intuition of another spirit — it would be no longer what had been done before . |
| 13 | Neither can the student unrest in Germany be said to have been as serious as it was in France . |
| 14 | As Lévi-Strauss himself acknowledges , all social phenomena can of course be said to possess or exhibit ‘ structure ’ ( i.e. some degree of orderliness and patterning ) , just as , with almost equal plausibility , they can be claimed to have some functional significance . |
| 15 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 16 | At this point the question may well arise : since there are such profound differences among the contributors , how could these different views be said to constitute a perspective ? |
| 17 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
| 18 | Yet can not the elder referred to in the example be said to have acted morally even though he did not adhere to the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence ? |
| 19 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |
| 20 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 21 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
| 22 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
| 23 | Why can not the same thing be said about extension ? |
| 24 | Thus in no case can a potential manager 's career path be said to lie necessarily within one column of the table . |
| 25 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |
| 26 | To what extent can children be said to apply ‘ rules ’ in word-formation ? |
| 27 | These occasional chance encounters could not in any way be said to constitute a satisfactory emotional life . |
| 28 | The same can no doubt be said of any ‘ outillage mentale ’ . |
| 29 | Under what circumstances can women be said to have a domain of their own ? |
| 30 | But in what sense can the conditions in prisons be said to be unjust ? |