Example sentences of "[vb mod] be said to be a " in BNC.
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1 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
2 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
3 | There are many alternative implementations of trie memory , in fact the 26-way tree just described could be said to be a type of trie . |
4 | One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey . |
5 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
6 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
7 | There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ . |
8 | In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect . |
9 | To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results . |
10 | ‘ The case may be said to be a good example of the stringency with which the courts scrutinise transactions of guarantee entered into at the instance of a debtor who is likely to be in a position to exert influence on the surety and in circumstances in which the surety can derive no conceivable benefit from the transaction . |
11 | X will be said to be a hyponym of Y ( and , by the same token , Y a superordinate of X ) if A is f(X) entails but is not entailed by A is f(Y) : |
12 | Indeed , it can be said to be a consequence , but also a cause , of the growth of the academic subject with which this book is concerned . |
13 | A market can be said to be a place where buyers and sellers meet to make an exchange of goods ( or services ) . |