Example sentences of "could [adv] be said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question which arises is whether the family proceedings court can make an order for no contact ; that is whether it could properly be said to be an order which was ‘ appropriate ’ with respect to the contact between the child and the parent . |
| 2 | We could only do so if in our view he was so clearly and outrageously wrong that his decision could properly be said to be irrational . |
| 3 | Since the unit almost certainly operated some Piper Cubs , it could loosely be said to be an airfield memorial ! |
| 4 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 5 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |
| 7 | The difference illustrated here could reasonably be said to be as much attitudinal as grammatical . |
| 8 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
| 9 | It could also be said to be an example of the developed use of experienced laymen to assist in the determination of disputes . |
| 10 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 11 | Could also be said to be its maturity value . |
| 12 | I should have screamed at the start — whenever the start could now be said to be . |
| 13 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 14 | When a three- or four-year-old child first comes to school , his real concern could almost be said to be his own identity . |
| 15 | The novel 's role could then be said to be to question the way we think about culture . |
| 16 | Some of Freud 's patients became more rational in their understanding of their problems , and they could therefore be said to be nearer than non-patients to the standard Freud held up as worthy of human beings . |