Example sentences of "might [be] said that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 2 | Indeed , it might be said that a set of standard terms requires greater care because it will be used for a large number of separate transactions , possibly involving a wide range of goods and/or parties . |
| 3 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 4 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 5 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . " |
| 6 | It might be said that the reformulation in [ 13b ] is simply a more theoretical version of the more concrete description of style in [ 13a ] . |
| 7 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 8 | ( In fact , it might be said that the use of torture in the ‘ civilised ’ world today is more widespread and certainly much more sophisticated than was the case in the ‘ barbaric ’ Middle Ages . ) |
| 9 | Alternatively , it might be said that the talk about words conveying ideas it not to be taken seriously . |
| 10 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 11 | It might be said that the analogy between policemen and scientists is incorrect because , while a scientist engages in experiment in order to test a pre-existing hypothesis , a policeman approaches an investigation with an open mind and is , therefore , not vulnerable to bias . |