Example sentences of "[vb mod] almost be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 2 | The sustained and systematic assault upon the assumptions and procedures of classic realism , vigorously pursued by the leading nouveaux romanciers , could almost be said to represent a manifesto of postmodern aims and aspirations ; while the emphatic self-reflexivity of their novels is frequently cited as paradigmatic of radical textuality . |
| 3 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 4 | When a three- or four-year-old child first comes to school , his real concern could almost be said to be his own identity . |
| 5 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 6 | The difference between the evangelicals and the others is so great that it can almost be said that growth in the diocese as a whole is restricted to evangelical parishes . |
| 7 | Chain , which was introduced in 1811 , could be stowed in a small damp locker and so it can almost be said that chain cleared the space needed below for engines and coal bunkers . |