Example sentences of "one could say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very neatly and no one could say when , but something had died that night . |
| 2 | He stands by what he said , and , sadly , many of his criticisms are still valid : the team have still not bought a video camera despite a large injection of cash from the Sports Council and no one could say that the preparation training for the world championships — one weekend in the Kendal Judo Club — has been anything but derisory . |
| 3 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
| 4 | One could say very certainly , therefore , that the book could not be complete until Lewis as a ‘ character ’ was complete . |
| 5 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 6 | That 's all one could say . |
| 7 | One could say that iron filings relate to a magnet in a different way from cork to water ; that a man , bat and ball have a different relationship from man , butterfly net and butterfly . |
| 8 | He 'd warned the man , no one could say he had n't warned him . |
| 9 | The creation of a powerful State thus preceded the creation of a popular nationalism for these countries ( in contrast to most later cases ) , and , indeed , one could say that the manufacture of a popular patriotism was an instrument for the consolidation of State power here . |
| 10 | No one could say when it would be ready again . |
| 11 | The two are clearly allied , however , since we can perceive directly through the mental faculty of sight — subtle sight , one could say — as well as via input through the physical eyes . |
| 12 | One could say that the duck goes ‘ quack ’ because his vocal organs will only say ‘ quack ’ , and that these vocal organs are genetically patterned . |
| 13 | There was no doubt he spoke a language the bulls understood , but no one could say they always obeyed him . |
| 14 | Though no one could say Miss Phoebe was sour — ninepence to the shilling maybe , but she had a heart under her flat chest . |
| 15 | It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage . |
| 16 | Then one could say ‘ You 've forgotten what it must feel like ’ ; this time he ought to be aware of the pain . |
| 17 | ‘ One could say that , ’ Edward agreed grimly . |
| 18 | That maxim , one could say , is the core of The Lord of the Rings , and it is reinforced from the start by all that Gandalf says about the way Ring-bearers fade , regardless of all their ‘ strength ’ or ‘ good purpose ’ , and further by his violent refusal to take the Ring himself : His renunciation makes sense in an age which has seen many pigs become farmers ; no reviewer has ever balked at this basic opening move of Tolkien 's . |
| 19 | The French delegation led by M. Jean Arrivetz of FACS stressed the desirability of using a mnemonic one could say as a word . |
| 20 | Cardinal Suenens pointed out to him that although no one could say he had no right to produce Humanae Vitae on his own , it would have had more credibility had it been collegially prepared . |
| 21 | Thinking of the almost natural way in which particularly young middle-class girls , but by no means only they , repressed all behaviour and thoughts concerning sex , one could say , that in many respects the preceding middle-class generations had to restrain their sexual — and possibly other — urges and inclinations , because these controls functioned quite blindly , beyond the conscious control of the individuals concerned … . |
| 22 | The normal association of prose with the lower elements — no one could say in prose ‘ I am fre and air ; my other elements/I give to baser life ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , V.ii.289f. ) — is revealed most amusingly in the case of Bottom . |
| 23 | One could say that the sentence ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ puts the state of affairs of its having been the knave of hearts who stole the tarts upon the mat for discussion . |
| 24 | Perhaps you would agree that one could say of him , that through commentaries and writing … your hand/Reshaped the history of the bat and ball . |
| 25 | In the matter of social balance one could say that most sea-stories , from the time of Marryat onwards , romanticised fact at least by omission . |
| 26 | As Wittgenstein put it : ‘ What has to be accepted , the given , is — so one could say — forms of life . ’ |
| 27 | Thus these case roles could be filled with nonsensical objects such as ’ sincerity ’ or ’ steam ’ ; i.e. , one could say ’ steam collided with sincerity ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed one could say that , in that Jesus had particularities , such a way of thinking would allow one to celebrate the particularity of each human being . |
| 29 | This , presumably one could say , maximizes their utility . |
| 30 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |