Example sentences of "[pron] have be say of " in BNC.

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1 It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so .
2 It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ !
3 Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire .
4 Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event .
5 As for the mentioned activity , an attempt must be made to understand it in a way consonant with what has been said of contents and objects , that they are not states of affairs or ordinary things , and also with a further fact , that there are various modes of consciousness .
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