Example sentences of "it could be said that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT COULD be said that the Scottish appetite for golf is so healthy they would turn out to watch anybody play . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It could be said that the hard teaching of the New Testament is hopelessly out of touch with modern life . |
| 5 | It could be said that the existence of a legal right has provided a focus for political organisation — but does such a focus strengthen the movement or weaken it , for example , by diverting resources to legal rather than other struggles ? ( cf. the debates on ‘ legislation ’ , Teubner , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | It could be said that the We/ Us/Our form is rather a mode of self-description when the poet wishes to present his beloved and himself to the world ( as shown by Donne in the Songs and Sonnets ) , and that Shakespeare prefers to keep the relationship on an interpersonal level . |
| 7 | But the impact of Monet on the American pictorial imagination goes beyond this ; indeed it could be said that the whole Abstract Expressionist movement was deeply influenced by him . |
| 8 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 9 | In deciding whether or not to relist an appeal , it could be said that the Court of Appeal is not hearing an appeal but is exercising an autonomous jurisdiction relating to its own procedures . |
| 10 | The result was described by a leading U.S commentator as a ‘ free contract of carriage … to the point where it could be said that the carrier accepted the goods to be carried when he liked , as he liked , and wherever he liked . ’ |
| 11 | Also it could be said that the role of Equality Officer is , by its name , more open to being filled by man or woman than it was when it was known as Women 's Special Representative . |
| 12 | The case itself was decided on the basis that the ownership of a business was not transferred to the transferee employer , but even under the organisational test of the Directive it could be said that the business did not preserve its identity : the same machines were being used , but in a different business . |
| 13 | Indeed , it could be said that the secret of his success lay not so much in his ability to use to his advantage the divisions within his own forces as in his perception of conservative Spain 's deep-seated desire for a leader who would restore and conserve the country 's identity as a great world power . |
| 14 | They estimated that , overall , it could be said that the better off use services costing 45–70 per cent more than those used by the least well off . |
| 15 | Since the directors are the sole shareholders , the shareholders are not deprived of anything , and it could be said that the sole controllers are not dishonest within Ghosh . |
| 16 | As early as 1860 " it could be said that the abolition of tax farming was … official Imperial policy " . |
| 17 | The kind of determinism dominant in the book is exemplified in his discussion of tense : On the other hand it could be said that the English tense system offers speakers the choice of whether to see time in this way . |
| 18 | In English it is not necessary to be able to class a vowel as ( +front , +round ) , whereas this is necessary for French and German ; it could be said that the major task for the learner in this case is to learn the combination of these features , not to learn the individual vowels , and ( in French ) . |