Example sentences of "it could [be] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any beer in the house ? ’ asked Boyd , as soon as the car engine had started up and it could be assumed that Mrs Stych was on her way . |
| 2 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
| 3 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |
| 4 | To continue with the floral metaphor , it could be said that researchers must search the fully flowered attitudinal stances of this year for the seeds of next year 's crop . |
| 5 | First , at least in the kinds of knowledge on offer in higher education , it could be said that knowledge ‘ progresses ’ . |
| 6 | If we may greatly oversimplify , it could be said that discussions of team organization in relation to client groups tend to be cast in the form of a set of claims made for the advantages of specialization . |
| 7 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |
| 8 | It could be said that phileo is the relationship . |
| 9 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
| 10 | On the contrary , God gives men so many reasons to have lack of trust ( calamities , uncertainties , loss of hope ) that it could be said that God actually illustrates that trust in something or someone beneficial is not to be erected on happiness or good experiences alone . ’ |
| 11 | Now if it could be said that God in Christ took on specifically ‘ male humanity ’ , then women would be outside the scheme of salvation — and that has never been suggested . |
| 12 | In my judgment even if it could be said that Mr Clayton attorned tenant to Twogates by tacitly accepting the terms of that letter , such an attornment would not be evidence of an unequivocal intention on the part of the landlords to re-enter under the provisions of the … lease … |
| 13 | So it could be said that Michael Palin 's whose career went against what his father wished for him — All the more unforgivable because , unlike his father , he has followed ‘ my natural inclination ’ — and succeeded . |
| 14 | It could be argued that Darras ' vision is quixotic . |
| 15 | Designer and architect are probably the most demanding of these skills , although it could be argued that artists and writers , beauty consultants , hairdressers and photographers also need them . |
| 16 | Of course , it could be argued that purpose is not confined to use in a functional sense but also encompasses the enjoyment which the buyer can reasonably expect from his purchase . |
| 17 | The human resources director of a large UK wines and spirits business also suggested that once total costs were taken into account , it could be argued that headhunters were not necessarily more expensive than using home-grown methods . |
| 18 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 19 | Moreover , it could be argued that prisoners are more at risk of further offences than probationers because of , first , their commission of relatively more serious offences , and second , their more extensive and therefore more entrenched criminal careers . |
| 20 | Although officially accorded little or no power , it could be argued that women 's culturally ambiguous position within Hebrew patriarchy resulted in a type of informal sub-structural power dynamic which in turn regenerated the culturally constructed fear of women necessary to patriarchal interests and explicit power concerns . |
| 21 | For it could be argued that women artists have a quite specific relationship and history to publicly sited works . |
| 22 | On this basis it could be argued that companies should indeed be regarded as purely private organisations , and that state intervention in their internal affairs constitutes an improper interference with the moral rights of the participants . |
| 23 | It could be argued that variations in economic and social circumstances are very largely responsible for shaping the visible patterns of support , but that these only occur because of an underlying sense of duty and responsibility towards relatives ; this operates independently of external circumstances . |
| 24 | It could be argued that defendants who might otherwise have been acquitted could be persuaded to plead guilty to lesser offences . |
| 25 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 26 | It could be argued that Ormrod J. 's view of the law is wrong , and that if the transsexual engaged in sexual relations outside the marriage , this would amount to adultery . |
| 27 | Finally , while it could be argued that Greeley and Rossi tell us something of catholic versus state schooling in the US , they have nothing to tell us about catholic versus Christian , multi-denominational schools , which is what most of the argument in Ireland is about . |
| 28 | Because persuading people to be unpaid referees is difficult it could be argued that editors have to pass the comments on . |
| 29 | It could be argued that Gould 's irrebuttable presumption finds its support in the fact that the judiciary has arrogated to itself the ultimate decision on all questions of law . |
| 30 | On the other hand , it could be argued that Alexandra Maitland was a woman for whom it was more than worth abandoning the rest of the female sex . |