Example sentences of "be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ Solid , thorough , plodding , even , ’ ( that had been said of him by a Bromberg once to Frau Nordern — — but once only ) ‘ but kind in his shy way and decent to the very core . ’ |
| 33 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 34 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 35 | Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire . |
| 36 | This gave us a further topic for conversation for , I hope , it might have been said of us ( in Demetrios Capetanakis 's famous line ) : ‘ They were so nice , and interested in cooking . ’ |
| 37 | It is a pity that the same could not have been said of the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders . |
| 38 | It could have been said of Ralph too . |
| 39 | For it has always been said of the eucharist that precisely it is not a play about the last supper — in which case the celebrant had best be male and semitic in appearance . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | There was no officer gaping for a fee ; this could have been said of no city on the English side of the Tweed . ’ |
| 43 | Whether this could have been said of Halling I know not . |
| 44 | Ronny Johnsen — nothing more has been said of this in our press . |
| 45 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 46 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 47 | Much of what has been said with reference to TV also applies to radio . |
| 48 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 49 | Enough has been said with regard to the bass line in the preceding example to indicate the kind of procedure suitable in cases of this kind . |
| 50 | Family prayers must have been said with particular fervour that night but it was n't only the dramatic episode that drove Ella Burrows to her knees . |
| 51 | Thank you Mr Mayor , erm I probably will repeat some of the things that have already been said with regard to community arts . |
| 52 | Something similar could have been said for Davout . |
| 53 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 54 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 55 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 56 | Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints . |
| 57 | ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said . |
| 58 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 59 | No word has been said about his fears for his sons . |
| 60 | This account of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages may have been rather weighted towards the political , and perhaps , given the political complexion of the discussion , it may be surprising to many readers that more has not been said about the papacy . |