Example sentences of "it could be said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Most important of all was to know the Catechism , and they had to repeat it over and over until it could be said without faltering .
2 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 .
3 To take an even more famous imperial hero , perhaps the most famous of all , it could be said of T.E .
4 I do not believe , whatever I may mean by God , that it could be said of God that God was differently related to one age or people than God is related to all ages or people .
5 Pontypool are not the force they were … some fear it could be said of Gloucester too … not after this win …
6 Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society .
7 I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’
8 It could be said to be retrogressive — a return ( retreat ? ) to narrow Victorian child-rearing values — to be writing guidelines on how to encourage obedience and overcome disobedience in the late 1980s .
9 As a research project , it could be said to be one of the ‘ old-fashioned ’ kind ; it had to be done on a shoestring .
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