Example sentences of "[noun] could be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , any carrot is going to do you some good , but those grown without the aid of pesticides could be said to do you even more good — the extra glow imparted by this thought naturally infuses a carrot salad . |
| 2 | He was wondering if , strictly speaking , a vicarage could be said to have a lounge — he would have thought not . |
| 3 | Indeed , contour ploughing , contour brushwood planting , and ditch-and-bund constructions could be said to be types of terrace . |
| 4 | Certainly , academics will tend to identify with their department more than their institution ; but there is a sense in which the worldwide subject-based invisible college could be said to be basic . |
| 5 | If strenuous attempts were also made to involve Scottish business in a real debate , then the mixture of the council and the coalition could be said to reflect a pretty broad national consensus . |
| 6 | The fall could be said to give an impression of ‘ finality ’ . |
| 7 | Even by accepting Laura Danby 's kind invitation , Meredith 's own fiercely maintained independence could be said to have been undermined . |
| 8 | In this way Foucault could be said to be returning to Marx in removing the subject from the centre of history , were it not for the fact that he dispenses with the consolations of Marx 's historicism also . |
| 9 | The attitudes embodied by these two men were described in Chapter 3 as ‘ instrumental ’ and ‘ expressive ’ ; the instrumental attitude could be said to regard physics as a useful subject , both for individuals and for society , while the more expressive , or liberal , attitude , regards the discipline as valuable for its own sake . |
| 10 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 11 | Others , such as Rizzi ( 1939 ) and Burnham ( 1941 ) , earlier argued that the bureaucracy could be said to own public property , albeit collectively , not individually . |
| 12 | Whilst any human cost of alcohol abuse could be said to be too great , it is important not to ignore both the economic and the social benefits associated with drinking . |
| 13 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 14 | These technologies could be said to be neo-Fordist — that is they make use of information technologies but within a framework determined in the Fordist era . |
| 15 | Therefore Judaism and Islam could be said to be in one sense polytheistic and in one sense monotheistic . |
| 16 | But with the non-European world in general , with Asia and whatever independent states could be said to exist in Africa , with Latin America and even to a large extent with the United States , Europe 's relationship was still very largely an economic one based on the increasing flows of intercontinental trade . |
| 17 | Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually . |
| 18 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 19 | Still , a Government lately inclined to talk nostalgically about communities might well reflect on whether the actions of a Timex could be said to mesh well with the interests or values of a community which has long afforded the company a secure base and a loyal workforce . |
| 20 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 21 | Darwin 's ‘ tree ’ of evolutionary relationships had a radiating pattern of divergent branches so that no single branch could be said to represent the goal towards which all the others were moving . |
| 22 | This faith could be said to rely , at least to some extent , on that part of the teachings of the Old Testament which claims that a ‘ god ’ had promised sovereignty over the Promised Land , or what is now Palestine , to the descendants of Abraham . |
| 23 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 24 | British policy towards the European Community could be said to involve careful application of realist principles — the pursuit of national self-interest , narrowly defined , through participation in the single market but opting out of the social chapter . |
| 25 | Prost could be said to represent the next generation of drivers and Niki the past . |
| 26 | The only aspect of play where 'Mere could be said to have played to their ability was in the lineout where Gibbons and Daly won more than their fair share of ball . |
| 27 | By causing a subsidiary to issue preference shares to a bank , the group could be said to be ‘ window dressing ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | well I , I think I 'll take agree Mr you know much more about these matters than I do , I just , my eye just lit upon that one I thought that would perhaps the one in which the insurance directive could be said to be attached , but if you 've told me it 's C I 'm perfectly happy to accept it as being C. |
| 30 | For the West , the imaginary war could be said to have defined the era of Fordist capitalism . |