Example sentences of "[noun] could [be] said " in BNC.
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| 31 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 32 | That is , in the subject of proposition 55 ‘ thought ’ is opposed to ‘ reality ’ almost as if a language game as a whole could be said to be justified by something outside it . |
| 33 | The attitude towards science in the Eagle could be said to be typical of UK comics generally . |
| 34 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 35 | The indigenous people avoid these fish during the tree 's fruiting season and , if other fish predators do the same , the tree could be said to be operating a Securicor system for its offspring . |
| 36 | The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child . |
| 37 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 38 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 39 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 40 | The best known of such views , very close to the theme of this paper , are Turing 's speculations on whether machines could be said to think ( Turing 1950 ) . |
| 41 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 42 | There would be some truth in the assertion that traffic commissioners have the welfare of " bus operators very much at heart when fixing fares ; similar things could be said of airline regulators . |
| 43 | Secondly , that it is politically naive , because such an argument could be said to justify the kind of political move I have just mentioned , in which some institutions of higher education might be denied research funding . |
| 44 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 45 | W. P. Hartley also made donations so that the movement could be said to have been financially based on Quaker chocolate and Methodist jam . |
| 46 | The movement could be said to have started in Scotland in 1972 , when the Headteachers ' Association set themselves to determine the range of items of information needed to produce a comprehensive picture of the aptitudes and interests of all pupils , offering them a common form of statement , which would be generally comprehensible and would be available to them when appropriate . |
| 47 | August could be said to mark the start of the great divide between gardening in Scotland and the rest of the UK . |
| 48 | A ‘ steersman ’ in a towed vehicle will be held to be ‘ driving ’ if the extent and degree of control could be said to correctly describe ‘ driving ’ ( R v MacDonagh , [ 1974 ] RTR 372 and McQuaid v Anderton , [ 1980 ] 3 All ER 540 ) . |
| 49 | His claim to have loved Clare Mallender and to have had her stolen from him somehow lacked conviction and , anyway , his conquest of Virginia Dysart could be said to have evened the score . |
| 50 | Whereas any belief can be anchored , regardless of the content of the belief , only certain sons of belief could be said to be objectified . |
| 51 | Now sexism is so fundamental an evil that it becomes very difficult for anyone who has grasped this to envisage that God could be said to have been involved with human history . |
| 52 | The problem for the fathers was how to express that God could be said to have uniquely identified God 's self with Jesus of Nazareth , without making Jesus into God . |
| 53 | Yet at the broadest level the battle-lines could be said to have fallen into this basic pattern . |
| 54 | To this extent , Judaism could be said to have failed , and failed tragically . |
| 55 | The illustration of such a double logic working at a textual level often comes to seem remarkably close to a deconstructive analysis : in the same way as Derrida or de Man could be said to be deconstructing received readings that have institutional purchase , so the new historicists shift our understanding of institutionalized historical accounts . |
| 56 | Neither she nor Ladislav could be said to be well-off . |
| 57 | ELLEN 'S LETTER ARRIVED the following week by which time life could be said , by all but the most observant , to have returned to normal . |
| 58 | On this basis the degree of hierarchy could be said to increase , ceteris paribus , with increases in the domain delegated to authorized control , and with reductions in the extent to which resource owners are involved in making decisions about the deployment of their resources . |
| 59 | Neo-elitists have contradictory normative beliefs to those of the traditionalists , arguing for the persistent significance of classical democratic ideals , and in this sense could be said to have turned traditional elitism on its head . |
| 60 | There is the belief that even if criteria of rationality differ across forms of thought , at least individual forms of thought could be said to contain discrete pools of rationality . |