Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] said about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first , something has to be said about consciousness and intentions , because in everyday life we interpret our own behaviour in these terms , and it seems natural to do the same for animals . |
| 2 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 3 | For this reason alone , something has to be said about the predominance of the female nude in European art from the mid-19th century . |
| 4 | Guillaume ( 1984 : 120ff ) shows that all substantives , adjectives , adverbs and verbs are inherently predicative because they bring to mind a lexical notion which has to be said about something in order for the word to perform its function in discourse . |
| 5 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 8 | The magazine Field and Stream published this delightfully tongue-in-cheek review which says all that needs to be said about innocence and incorruptibility : |
| 9 | More needs to be said about our conviction , but here we have something . |
| 10 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 11 | But there is one more thing at least that needs to be said about it . |
| 12 | If it were possible to compile a complete list of the basic propositions needed to say everything that essentially needs to be said about the world , existential propositions would not be among them . |
| 13 | Before we look at the separate groups and the new pope 's treatment of them , more needs to be said about poverty and preaching . |
| 14 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 15 | However , to assert that there is a very great deal remaining to be said about the mutual effects of semantics and syntax may seem a bold claim , perhaps even a surprising one , given the number of those who have worked on both areas and the many publications with titles suggesting that the two have been linked inside their covers . |
| 16 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 17 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 18 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 19 | It is these two rituals which will be the main focus of this essay , but before turning to their specific analysis a few more words need to be said about the general blood context and the male-female hierarchy at work within it . |