Example sentences of "it could be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it could be said that not only is it about imitation — it is also , as are other tours de force , itself an imitation of something . |
| 2 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 3 | That Agatha Christie 's reading was wide-ranging can not now be denied , but , even so , the source of one of Hercule Poirot 's favourite ploys — almost , it could be said , his trademark , the gathering together of the suspects at the climax of one of his investigations — is surprising . |
| 4 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 5 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 6 | IT COULD be said that the Scottish appetite for golf is so healthy they would turn out to watch anybody play . |
| 7 | We saw in Chapter 7 how the enemy is ‘ homosexualized ’ , with the result that , even while homosexuals were being imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis , it could be said that to eliminate homosexuality would be to get rid of fascism . |
| 8 | An unpredictable aesthetic , it could be said , is a requirement of an historical materialism adequate to its political task . |
| 9 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 10 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , it could be said that the only women these days who sport one single fragrance , all the time , are those famous glamour-pusses — Joan Collins , Elizabeth Taylor , Paloma Picasso , and so on — who are paid several millions of dollars a year to endorse a ‘ signature ’ scent , on condition they never allow gossipy fellow lunchers in smart restaurants to get an illicit whiff of ‘ Chanel No 5 ’ as they swan by . |
| 12 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 13 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 14 | On the contrary , God gives men so many reasons to have lack of trust ( calamities , uncertainties , loss of hope ) that it could be said that God actually illustrates that trust in something or someone beneficial is not to be erected on happiness or good experiences alone . ’ |
| 15 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
| 16 | To onlookers these men were seen in many cases as ‘ Nonconformist ministers ’ and of many it could be said that ‘ his prayer was like himself , rough and earnest ’ . |
| 17 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 18 | Indeed , stretches of the system had considerable success , and between 1814 and the 1840's it could be said that the Grand Union justified itself . |
| 19 | While it could be said that an extreme poem reveals hidden struggles most clearly , it may also be remote from the poet 's characteristic beliefs and attitudes . |
| 20 | It could be said that this is a battle that is being won . |
| 21 | Representing the Prussian general staff were the generals von Roon and von Moltke , and perhaps most importantly , Bismarck , who later described the occasion as a ‘ simple family dinner ’ , a description of which it could be said that those who believe it will believe anything . |
| 22 | It could be said , however , that this type of critique of Western rationalism itself belongs to a tradition within Western culture . |
| 23 | It could be said that the hard teaching of the New Testament is hopelessly out of touch with modern life . |
| 24 | It could be said that a major function of handmade ceramic ware , individually thrown mugs and bowls , is to aid the transition into the automated computer age . |
| 25 | Indeed , it could be said that they had prospered . |
| 26 | It could be said to be retrogressive — a return ( retreat ? ) to narrow Victorian child-rearing values — to be writing guidelines on how to encourage obedience and overcome disobedience in the late 1980s . |
| 27 | Yet by 1871 the tide had turned ; and in 1895 it could be said that ‘ the court will not allow a precatory trust to be raised unless … it comes to the conclusion that it was the intention of the testator to create a trust ’ . |
| 28 | In this respect it could be said that there was considerable unevenness within the economy as a whole . |
| 29 | It could be said , in all truth , that both Louis and Etty lacked sparkle . |
| 30 | It could be said that phileo is the relationship . |