Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] say of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 2 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis . |
| 6 | It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Nothing is here said of lust , treachery and blood-guilt . |
| 9 | 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 . |