Example sentences of "[be] said [prep] [noun prp] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 It must be said on James 's behalf that he refrained from doing so .
2 The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears .
3 Much the same can be said for Lichtenstein 's comic-strip pop art or Alex Cox 's use of Lichtenstein-type devices in his film Repo Man .
4 There 's a lot to be said for Wilko 's tough attitude too .
5 The best that can be said for Manne 's argument is that as the risks of insider dealing increase , ‘ not trading ’ trading may become more popular .
6 Much the same can be said of Ayer 's treatment of existence .
7 The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status .
8 Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) .
9 The same could be said of America 's Mr Bowe as heavyweight champion until he split his unified title by throwing the WBC belt in a dustbin and fighting a clumsy challenger , Michael Dokes .
10 This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed .
11 The same could be said of Kent 's Matthew Fleming , whose flair for adventure would have thrilled his late Uncle Ian to bits .
12 However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless .
13 This can not be said of Lagerfeld 's Chloe collection for next autumn .
14 The same could be said of Brooke-Rose 's attitude toward fiction .
15 If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ?
16 Perhaps this is true of some farmers , but it certainly could n't be said of Small 's enterprise .
17 Whatever else may be said about Britain 's standing abroad , one indisputable fact , albeit a somewhat dubious distinction , is that , in the field of sexually transmitted diseases , this country leads the world .
18 In conclusion , is there anything of a general nature that can be said about Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem ?
19 New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted .
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