Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [be] say [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 2 | It is also to agree that they could not be said to represent the mass of unskilled working people . |
| 3 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 6 | Thus , because the taxpayer could not be said to control the trustees , he could not be said to have control over the application of the income within s742(e) . |