Example sentences of "[be] say [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sartre , therefore , can not after all be said to substitute a simple voluntarism for an underlying historical structure . |
| 2 | If Shostakovich 's cycle of 15 symphonies can be said to represent a musical thread passing through the whole of the composer 's public life , then it can argued that his cycle of 15 string quartets represents the private persona of the man behind the mask from the beginning of his personal anguish in the late 1930s until his death in 1975 . |
| 3 | Since documents usually have an overall structure , objective and topic , they can be said to represent a particular domain ( e.g. banking , insurance , etc . ) . |
| 4 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 5 | Only here , and in mining districts like Asturias , could there be said to exist a modern bourgeoisie and an industrial working class . |
| 6 | M. F. D. Young has pointed out that , while scientists of different persuasions can be said to form a professional group sharing assumptions and methodologies , the same is not by any means true of the humanities or the social sciences . |
| 7 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 8 | In this respect , the " they " can be said to form a cataphoric link with the references to " the soldiers ' and " the officer " later in the narrative . |
| 9 | ‘ The various shops may be said to form an inverted L , the southern arm following the railway towards London , while the western section is bounded by the Grand Junction Canal and the Stratford Road . |
| 10 | Of course , many retail outlets fall between these two extremes and can be said to operate a medium quality trading policy . |
| 11 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 12 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 13 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 14 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 15 | ( de Lauretis 1984 , p. 163 ) The impact of this shift on film-making has been that except for overtly feminist films , cinematic practices in the independent sector no longer necessarily can be said to construct a male gaze . |
| 16 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
| 17 | How then could philosophy in general be said to have a male bias ? |
| 18 | Rather volcanoes can be said to have a morphological capacity representing the maximum size attainable by a particular type of eruption and associated ejecta . |
| 19 | English can therefore be said to have a grammatical category of number . |
| 20 | But Mr Baker argued that we could not really be said to have a national system at all when there is no nationally agreed curriculum . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But both can be said to have a basic requirement for nitrogen , which they incorporate into their own proteins and nucleic acids . |
| 23 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
| 24 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 25 | In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism . |
| 26 | As water has a gravity of 1000 degrees , a beer with 36 parts of fermentable material will be said to have an original gravity or OG of 1036 degrees . |