Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An operation could be said to have increased in efficiency either if fewer inputs were used to produce a given amount of output , or a given level of input resulted in increased output . |
| 2 | The only aspect of play where 'Mere could be said to have played to their ability was in the lineout where Gibbons and Daly won more than their fair share of ball . |
| 3 | Yet at the broadest level the battle-lines could be said to have fallen into this basic pattern . |
| 4 | The ‘ Permissive Society ’ could be said to have begun in the cradles of the Spock babies of the Forties and Fifties , who became the student protestors of the Sixties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 7 | An outstanding example of this sort of pattern in our own field is the synthetic fibre business which , historically , could be considered to have started in the days of rayon at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | Those who escaped these earliest of water-rates could be deemed to have got off ‘ scot free ’ . |