Example sentences of "[noun] have been said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A good deal has been said about his struggles on the greens in the last 28 months , but in Canada the situation was altogether different .
2 A great deal has been said about the need to improve language skills in order to deal with the needs of trade and industry in the contemporary multi-lingual world .
3 Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample .
4 Those who act at the place of business must be doing so on the business of the company and not their own account ; the crucial question has been said to be , ‘ Does the agent in carrying out the foreign corporation 's business make a contract for the corporation , or does the agent in carrying out his own business , sell a contract for the foreign corporation ? ’ .
5 In Britain various landforms have been said to be exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments .
6 Whatever may be said about Ecclesiastes — and many things have been said about him — he decried traditional wisdom .
7 If hurtful things have been said to you or about you do n't let your mind keep going over and over them .
8 More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species .
9 No word has been said about his fears for his sons .
10 Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night .
11 This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes .
12 ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said .
13 ‘ A lot has been said about the marvellous people who do look after Down 's Syndrome babies .
14 ‘ A lot has been said about what went on .
15 And I 'm sure the districts a lot has been said about er it being the districts ' view that well you know we 've got this policy so we will we will exercise a high level of restraining to protect the countryside against all comers etcetera etcetera .
16 Rather a lot has been said in this chapter about the minor details of lava flows .
17 A lot has been said in the Press and on television about the noises and smells of the countryside .
18 Section 33 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 , even if it applies to composite rate tax , is not applicable for a number of reasons , not least that no valid assessment could be made under an invalid regulation , that no assessment was in fact made and that , even if made , the assessment could not on the facts of the present case have been said to be ‘ excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return : ’ section 33(1) .
19 M. Dupont went on : ‘ Many things of interest have been said in this house over the past days .
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