Example sentences of "[noun sg] it could be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 2 | The case itself was decided on the basis that the ownership of a business was not transferred to the transferee employer , but even under the organisational test of the Directive it could be said that the business did not preserve its identity : the same machines were being used , but in a different business . |
| 3 | In this respect it could be said that there was considerable unevenness within the economy as a whole . |
| 4 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 5 | For the same reason , civil servants above a certain level can not take an overt or active part in politics in case it could be said that their opinions influenced the minister . |
| 6 | The kind of determinism dominant in the book is exemplified in his discussion of tense : On the other hand it could be said that the English tense system offers speakers the choice of whether to see time in this way . |
| 7 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 8 | The implication here is , that a man desists from killing animals out of fear that he may be killing a reincarnated soul , but while it may be possible to draw that conclusion , the principle of identity clearly goes much deeper than that , and in fact it could be said to contradict Tillich 's suggestion since that is no more than enlightened self-interest . |
| 9 | In fact it could be said that there is no such thing as a naive or experienced searcher per se . |