Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [be] said [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 2 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 3 | In 1910 few Liberals had argued for Home Rule in their election addresses or speeches , so they could not be said to have a clear mandate for it . |
| 4 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 5 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 6 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 7 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 8 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 9 | Clark simply refuses to allow that such behaviour by a creature lacking language transforms the content of what they can properly be said to fear or be distressed at . |
| 10 | The mode of economic production prevalent in a society may be very different from the mode of ideological production , but they can still be said to share certain ingredients . |
| 11 | Such combinations constitute formulaic patterns which are indeed of very frequent occurrence in language use and need to be accounted for ( as I mentioned in Chapter 3 ) but they can hardly be said to represent the total language to be taught . |