Example sentences of "could [be] said of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra .
2 The same could be said of the recent Starfield and Chandler ranges , both of which we have looked at lately , and if this steering away from routine duplication is indeed a new trend , then it 's one which I applaud wholeheartedly .
3 We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’
4 The same could be said of the Shakespearean or Homeric frame .
5 If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI .
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