Example sentences of "[adv] be said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 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 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 5 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 8 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 9 | Erica herself was entirely honest , and worked hard for her causes , but the same could not be said of some of her associates . |
| 10 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 14 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 15 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 16 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Government 's policy on television in mainland Tanzania could be seen as anti-elitist ; the same could not be said of its policy on the press . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |
| 21 | The same could not be said of his stenographer , seated in front of him . |
| 22 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , this can not be said of the licence fee . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , while his powers of mental control are impressive , this can not be said of his ability to control his physical body . |
| 25 | If Mosley came to fascism as a result of the failure of the process of British parliamentary politics to create the new society , the same could not be said of others , like Chesterton and Williamson , who had little or no contact with high politics . |
| 26 | The same can not be said of Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus , the monetarist architect of the reform . |
| 27 | The food was very good , and when we ended the meal our stomachs were full , but the same could not be said of our wallets unfortunately ! |
| 28 | It can not be said of Barth that he did not know of evolution ! |
| 29 | In so far as it is the case that , in the classical doctrine of the trinity , it is said that the three persons are alike in all save their mutual relations , when we are speaking of Christ as God , as the second person of the trinity , it can not be said of Christ that he is ‘ male ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |