Example sentences of "could be said to [be] a " in BNC.

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1 I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’
2 The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform .
3 There are many alternative implementations of trie memory , in fact the 26-way tree just described could be said to be a type of trie .
4 One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey .
5 By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one .
6 A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification .
7 There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ .
8 In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect .
9 That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence .
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