Example sentences of "it might be said [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while it might be said that his version of pochvennost comes from this same source , and while it is certainly true that pochvennost deserves a longer footnote than the Petrine reforms , a footnote is all it should be . |
| 2 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
| 3 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 4 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 5 | Indeed , it might be said that Augusta , as a whole , is his territory . |
| 6 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 7 | For those that understand such terminology it might be said that the remedies work at the level of energy and not of matter . |
| 8 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 9 | In the instant case it might be said that there was a stronger case for allowing the court 's jurisdiction because there was no provision for any appeal if the Revenue was allowed to invoke s 485 . |
| 10 | However , it might be said that to require additional disclosure from all companies as a means of addressing the lack of it from a few is to force rules on the majority for the sake of the minority . |
| 11 | It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively . |
| 12 | Alternatively , it might be said that the talk about words conveying ideas it not to be taken seriously . |
| 13 | Next , it might be said that although Locke was in the business of trying to explain communication in terms of ideas being conveyed from one mind to another , now we know better . |
| 14 | It might be said that war elephants were the battle tanks of the Moguls . |
| 15 | Indeed , on reflection , it might be said that the ‘ Plowden Revolution , was a mirage , a revolution that never was . |
| 16 | Thus , whilst in 1953 Armed Forces support was invoked by the Party , in 1957 it might be said that it had been enlisted by a faction , albeit the First Secretary 's own . |
| 17 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 18 | It might be said that it was in 1973 that Warrant Officer Dirk Coetzee 's real life began . |
| 19 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 20 | It might be said that if psychoanalysis had not posited the pleasure principle as the basis for the functioning of the unconscious , there would be no problem about this set of phenomena of ‘ compulsions to repeat ’ . |
| 21 | ( In fact , it might be said that the use of torture in the ‘ civilised ’ world today is more widespread and certainly much more sophisticated than was the case in the ‘ barbaric ’ Middle Ages . ) |
| 22 | It might be said that this was , in part , because the elected government of President Salvador Allende did not command sufficient support for its radical programme . |
| 23 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
| 24 | It might be said that the analogy between policemen and scientists is incorrect because , while a scientist engages in experiment in order to test a pre-existing hypothesis , a policeman approaches an investigation with an open mind and is , therefore , not vulnerable to bias . |
| 25 | Since quite serious charges have been made against the foster mother and her ‘ family , ’ it might be said that fairness to her requires that such an investigation should take place . |
| 26 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 27 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 28 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 29 | Alternatively , it might be said that since it is unreasonable of a person to respond to such a threat by unlawful violence , it can be said that the conduct is not ‘ likely ’ to have such a result . |
| 30 | It might be said that if the police are aware that the procession is likely to take place because it has occurred in the past , the ‘ triggering ’ justification for requiring advance notice is satisfied , and the chief of police could require compliance by indicating to those who have organised such marches on previous occasions that he is prepared to use his powers under section 12 to ensure co-operation if necessary . |