Example sentences of "[adv] say of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 2 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 3 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 4 | On her other flank , would the USSR ever say of China what Germany once said of Russia : today I can afford to go to war , tomorrow I may not have that luxury ? |
| 5 | An observer of the couple once said of Maud Gonne that ‘ the first resolute man of action she meets will have her at his mercy ’ , and so it proved . |
| 6 | Bit early to say of course but it looks very promising . |
| 7 | Fatal Attraction actress Close said of George Bush 's campaign : ‘ How dare they talk about a kinder and gentler nation . |
| 8 | ‘ All he needs is someone to take care of him , ’ she would always say of Seth , but lately she had n't been so sure . |
| 9 | On her other flank , would the USSR ever say of China what Germany once said of Russia : today I can afford to go to war , tomorrow I may not have that luxury ? |
| 10 | History , if it is fair , will probably say of Carter that he was able to get some things done but that he was n't able to lead , that he was n't able to get the confidence of the people . ’ |
| 11 | When I was appreached I immediately said of course . |
| 12 | Nothing is here said of lust , treachery and blood-guilt . |
| 13 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 14 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 15 | It is sometimes said of bodies such as the CICB that they owe their existence to exercises of ‘ prerogative ’ power , but in this context , this means the same thing as saying that the body was not set up by statute . |