Example sentences of "be said of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 2 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 3 | It could have been said of Ralph too . |
| 4 | As for the mentioned activity , an attempt must be made to understand it in a way consonant with what has been said of contents and objects , that they are not states of affairs or ordinary things , and also with a further fact , that there are various modes of consciousness . |
| 5 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 6 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 7 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |
| 8 | That can also be said of Guleghina as Desdemona . |
| 9 | The same can be said of Christian Dior 's exquisite new five-colour eyeshadow compact Fiction where the key colour , a putty-oyster called Light , is surrounded by gentle shades such as Lavender and Pearl Grey . |
| 10 | Much the same can be said of Ayer 's treatment of existence . |
| 11 | It can not be said of Barth that he did not know of evolution ! |
| 12 | The same might be said of Giscard d'Estaing 's less populist party , the ‘ Union pour la Democratie Française ’ . |
| 13 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 14 | The same could be said of Sparta and her internal relations ( which as we saw affected external relations too ) . |
| 15 | The same can be said of literature in the broader field of gender and science , where there is much which is of interest to mathematics educators . |
| 16 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 17 | Much the same could be said of Singapore . |
| 18 | The same could be said of England ‘ B ’ because , apart from the regular England XV , many others — e.g. Redman , Robinson , Rodber , Pears , Hill , Hall , Heslop and Oti — were n't considered or available . |
| 19 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 20 | If Mosley came to fascism as a result of the failure of the process of British parliamentary politics to create the new society , the same could not be said of others , like Chesterton and Williamson , who had little or no contact with high politics . |
| 21 | The same could be said of America 's Mr Bowe as heavyweight champion until he split his unified title by throwing the WBC belt in a dustbin and fighting a clumsy challenger , Michael Dokes . |
| 22 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 23 | The same could be said of Kent 's Matthew Fleming , whose flair for adventure would have thrilled his late Uncle Ian to bits . |
| 24 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 25 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 26 | He hopes it will not be long before the same can be said of Britain . |
| 27 | Little need be said of flower colour for a child 's garden . |
| 28 | The same could be said of carbonate deposition in the mid-Silurian . |
| 29 | And the same can be said of structures . |
| 30 | To take an even more famous imperial hero , perhaps the most famous of all , it could be said of T.E . |