Example sentences of "could be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas . |
| 2 | Neither of these books , however , could be said to be intent on revenge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the light of such a polemic stand , it begs the question whether the revelation of how crime figures are manipulated by the police to sustain institutional beliefs ( see Chapter 5 ) could be said to undermine democracy or be classified as sedition . |
| 8 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 9 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 10 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 11 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 12 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 13 | IT COULD be said that the Scottish appetite for golf is so healthy they would turn out to watch anybody play . |
| 14 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 15 | All that could be said was that the judges and staff of the court would continue to do all in their power to reduce costs and lead times in the disposal of appellant business . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 18 | Reynolds may have admired and borrowed from Michelangelo , and while this could be said to represent , perhaps , a long-standing tradition of cultural domination — or the domination in England of the Italianate tastes of the English upper classes — it would be a mistake to make too much of this . |
| 19 | An unpredictable aesthetic , it could be said , is a requirement of an historical materialism adequate to its political task . |
| 20 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 21 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 25 | Watching Richard Arthurs was a lesson to us all , but what could be said about Ian Harrison ? ! |
| 26 | Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night . |
| 29 | The same could be said , but for different reasons , of one member of his retinue — small , big appetite , wears a black furry coat — who , rather uncomfortably , bears witness to the days of Anglo-Romanian entente . |
| 30 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |