Example sentences of "it could be said [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be said that her rights were born together with her ; and from birth with her guardian 's help she could bring the action and endeavour to show that the injury from which she suffered was caused prior to her birth through the fault of the defendant . |
| 2 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 3 | Crown Court judges differ from lay magistrates in a number of important respects ( though it could be said that their ideologies are similar ) . |
| 4 | For the same reason , civil servants above a certain level can not take an overt or active part in politics in case it could be said that their opinions influenced the minister . |
| 5 | Indeed , it could be said that they had prospered . |
| 6 | It could be said that they have abandoned whole areas of their responsibility to the national museums . |
| 7 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 8 | It could be said that our present system does not invite people to be active ; does not foster participation . |
| 9 | In this respect it could be said that there was considerable unevenness within the economy as a whole . |
| 10 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 11 | Together with the hold over council housing , it could be said that there was a measure of guidance and control over suburban building , its location , layout and design , as never before . |
| 12 | In fact it could be said that there is no such thing as a naive or experienced searcher per se . |
| 13 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 14 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 15 | It could be said that his attitude is as a result of his poverty but in chapter three we meet a young boy called Chuck Little who ‘ did n't know where his next meal was coming from ’ but who was also ‘ a perfect gentleman ’ and when he is contrasted to Bob Ewell 's son Burris we see that they are both in similar circumstances . |
| 16 | It could be said that someone analysing the function and distribution of tones in a tone language would be mainly occupied in examining utterances syllable by syllable , looking at each syllable as an independently variable item . |