Example sentences of "be said about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that . |
| 2 | There 's something to be said about that . |
| 3 | Much could be said about all these characteristics but of most significance for our purpose is the role of impartiality in relation to legislative and legal reasoning . |
| 4 | I can not speak from experience but the same can probably be said about most instruments if used properly . |
| 5 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 6 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 7 | It also turns out that a single fibre can carry many signals at the same time ( more will be said about this in Part 10 ) . |
| 8 | All scholars agree that the text of Boniface IV 's letter which is quoted here was a forgery of the eleventh century , and something must be said about this later . |
| 9 | More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al . |
| 10 | Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation . |
| 11 | In such a well studied and carefully recorded area , is there anything new that can be said about this Bronze Age landscape ? |
| 12 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 13 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 14 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |
| 15 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 17 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |