Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] could be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | British policy towards the European Community could be said to involve careful application of realist principles — the pursuit of national self-interest , narrowly defined , through participation in the single market but opting out of the social chapter . |
| 2 | The attitudes embodied by these two men were described in Chapter 3 as ‘ instrumental ’ and ‘ expressive ’ ; the instrumental attitude could be said to regard physics as a useful subject , both for individuals and for society , while the more expressive , or liberal , attitude , regards the discipline as valuable for its own sake . |
| 3 | For the West , the imaginary war could be said to have defined the era of Fordist capitalism . |
| 4 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 5 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 6 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 7 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 8 | The new system could be said to depend on a principle of school-based centralization . |
| 9 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 10 | The EC Commission for its part threw into the discussion the now celebrated Cockfield Report3 which detailed the host of measures which would have to be adopted before a single market could be said to exist . |
| 11 | Darwin 's ‘ tree ’ of evolutionary relationships had a radiating pattern of divergent branches so that no single branch could be said to represent the goal towards which all the others were moving . |