Example sentences of "can [adv] be said [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two limitations were that recovery will not be available : ( 1 ) where it can properly be said that the payment was made to close the transaction , and ( 2 ) where the payer was mistaken as to the proper interpretation of the statute . |
| 2 | It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon . |
| 3 | However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target . |
| 4 | It can thus be said that the programmer , rather than the user , dictates the form of the final design . |
| 5 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |
| 6 | But because the correspondence between graphological and phonological features is far from precise , it can not be said that a writer has actually represented the speech style of a character . |
| 7 | It can not be said that a warm relationship developed between the Minister and the doctors . |
| 8 | This realization has led to a great deal of debate and , although it can not be said that a general consensus has been reached on how best to define development , a good deal of light has been shed on the processes involved in different types of development . |
| 9 | However , it can not be said that the laws-of-war approach has resulted in clear and unambiguous agreement either among writers or among countries as to the precise restrictions to be placed on nuclear weapons use . |
| 10 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 11 | Despite the emphasis placed on this aspect of the division of labour by Marxists and non-Marxist sociologists alike , it can not be said that the division by strata forms the ‘ naturally ’ pertinent basis for social identification in capitalist societies . |
| 12 | ‘ It can not be said that the contract was cancelled by [ the petitioner ] when payment was not made by [ the first and second respondents ] on 23 May 1988 . |
| 13 | Further , now the debates are recorded , it can not be said that the Commons attempt to remain aloof . |
| 14 | Based on this study , it can not be said that the pernicious anaemia patients with the greatest risk of developing gastric cancer could be identified using intestinal metaplasia or mild dysplasia in random biopsy specimens as a guide . |
| 15 | It is now necessary to consider when a commercial transaction is so structured that it can not be said that the parties are dealing on standard terms at all . |
| 16 | The editor may not agree with sentiments in a " letter to the editor " : if sued for libel , does he lose the defence of " fair comment " because it can not be said that the opinion is honestly his ? |
| 17 | It can never be said of a theory that it is true , however well it has withstood rigorous tests , but it can hopefully be said that a current theory is superior to its predecessors in the sense that it is able to withstand tests that falsified those predecessors . |
| 18 | It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia . |
| 19 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
| 20 | Thus the question remains an open one , and it can hardly be said that the hotel proprietor had put his property to any special or unusually sensitive use . |
| 21 | In such a restricted case , where there is a master-servant relationship it can usually be said that the master or employer ‘ uses ’ as well as the driver , being the servant or employee . |
| 22 | It can also be said that the use of delegated legislation is desirable : ( a ) it allows a certain flexibility in the law . |
| 23 | It can however be said that the principle of justice , embodied in Martin B. 's judgment in Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and perhaps also in Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 , and expressed in the dicta of Lord Atkin and Sir Owen Dixon , still calls for attention ; and the central question in the present case is whether your Lordships ' House , deriving their inspiration from the example of those two great judges , should rekindle that fading flame and reformulate the law in accordance with that principle . |
| 24 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |