Example sentences of "could be said [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large , however , they argued that the behaviour of the electorate was shaped less by their stance to particular policy issues and more by generalised attitudes and beliefs about the party 's " image " , and they specifically pointed out " how little the mass of voters could be said to respond to the policy alternatives at Westminster in judging the claims of the rival parties " . |
| 2 | Franklin Roosevelt could be said to fall into the former category , but it should not be forgotten that he took office at a moment of great crisis in American history and was aided by unusually large majorities in both houses of the legislature . |
| 3 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Here there are no words which could be said to amount to a request for property to be made over to Titius . |
| 6 | The old adage ‘ The mind is willing but the flesh is weak , ’ could be said to apply to the M.C.R. and its attitude towards sport . |
| 7 | The new system could be said to depend on a principle of school-based centralization . |