Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] say [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |
| 2 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 3 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 4 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 5 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 6 | The English armies could hardly be said to have been outfought since they had not yet fought at all . |