Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask whether the meeting had caused this conversation is meaningless , for spontaneously arising conversations can be said to have many different causes . |
| 2 | At least the locked door designed to keep him in also keeps his enemies out , if he can be said to have any enemies . |
| 3 | Multiple batches can be made to have more similar spreads . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This obvious fact is not always exploited there is a tendency to regard the keyboard simply as a typewriter whereas any key can be chosen to have any function . |