Example sentences of "[adv] [be] said of [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the case of the substantive apple , it is obvious that the lexeme evoked by this word can only be applied to objects of our experience which are by nature apples : it can not be said of a pen or an eraser .
2 The same can not be said of a generalised advance disclosure .
3 The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable .
4 This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect .
5 Professor Rhys , of Cardiff Business School , points out that the Essex plant is in an area of low unemployment and that the same could not be said of the other big plants .
6 That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine .
7 That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 .
8 Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often .
9 The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal .
10 Some commentators have pointed out that , as can not be said of the Cadbury Committee 's report on the financial aspects of corporate governance , much legislation would be needed to implement the Green Paper 's proposals .
11 The senior staff of the TANU press felt that , while they might not always be in agreement with everything the Government and its various ministries did or said , they were committed to its goals ; the same , they believed , could not be said of the Standard .
12 At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders .
13 Unfortunately , this can not be said of the licence fee .
14 But it certainly could not be said of the master-manufacturers that theirs was the whisper of a faction , nor of the unions in their post-1832 revolutionary phase that theirs was the voice of the nation .
15 The same can not be said of the ceremonial and ritual laws which occupy much of Leviticus and other parts of the Pentateuch .
16 He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case .
17 The same can not be said of the keyboard itself which uses really nasty little keytops and has stick-on legends but at least they have been stuck on for you this time .
18 This can not be said of the ‘ Nutter ’ , whose conduct is the exception which proves the rules .
19 Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue .
20 This can not be said of the relational algebra and it is more ‘ user friendly ’ than a straight relational calculus language such as QUEL or SCL .
21 Fuck that , we were the only team not to choke when it came to the crunch , the same can not be said of the scum .
22 Unfortunately the same can not be said of the decision to persevere with the existing range of street furniture .
23 Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ .
24 By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling .
25 The same may also be said of the existence of a right of appeal .
26 The same must also be said of the Pastorale d'été and the Prélude , arioso et fugue , a transcription dating from 1936 of a piano piece composed four years earlier .
27 This may also be said of the fibre intake in man where we generally eat a low fibre diet but evolved eating a high fibre diet .
28 Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment .
29 Again , it 's hard to describe the tones , but imagine this treble pickup as a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul and you 're getting the idea , and the same could probably be said of the front humbucker .
30 True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory .
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