Example sentences of "[pers pn] could be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other ways I suppose I could be said to prosper tolerably well . |
| 2 | He chose to spend his moments of relaxation with his political cronies , though none of them could be said to have enjoyed his full confidence . |
| 3 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 4 | Insofar as younger ministers believed that a Christian state should improve housing , lay drains or provide pensions , they could be said to have advocated a form of social gospel . |
| 5 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 6 | To use the argument brought forward against the related speculation of Block ( i.e. about the tiny homunculi ) , one might at the very least want to deny that the higher and lower consciousnesses could , in any sense , be the same consciousnesses , whether or not they could be said to be in a physical part — whole relationship . |
| 7 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , they could be said to be implicit justifications of an almost fully formulated nature , in that they provide reasons for the existence of the monarchy and its ceremonial occasions . |
| 9 | Because palimpsest histories do precisely that , mingling realism with the supernatural and history with spiritual and philosophical reinterpretation , they could be said to float half-way between the sacred books of our various heritages , which survive on the strength of the faiths they have created , … and the endless exegesis and commentaries these sacred books create . |
| 10 | Biologically they could be said , as most tideline creatures are , to be " successful . " |
| 11 | Put together , they could be said to constitute more than the ‘ perhaps one or two opportunities ’ the discussion set out to find , but an outline strategy for reclaiming a grossly under-used source of much-needed brain-power in the boardroom : a strategy that now calls for sharpening and refining . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 16 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 17 | IT COULD be said that the Scottish appetite for golf is so healthy they would turn out to watch anybody play . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An unpredictable aesthetic , it could be said , is a requirement of an historical materialism adequate to its political task . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |