Example sentences of "[modal v] be said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same must be said of the two sets of Images , for although there is no shortage of incidental felicities , I feel that the pianist is apt to over- project this music instead of allowing it to speak for itself . |
| 2 | On the final disc , the Suite bergamasque has solid virtues but little magic , and the same must be said of Pour le piano and the nine shorter pieces , including Masques and L'isle joyeuse , that follow . |
| 3 | The same must be said of access to capital . |
| 4 | Something , then , must be said of how men of that time regarded war , and how commonly-held attitudes may have encouraged them to take an active part in it . |
| 5 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 6 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 7 | Before the definition of a contract of sale of goods is 1–3 considered , something must be said of the history and sources of the law relating to sale of goods . |
| 8 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 9 | The same might be said of Giscard d'Estaing 's less populist party , the ‘ Union pour la Democratie Française ’ . |
| 10 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 11 | The calf is supposed to miss its mother as it might be said of a 4-year-old child . |
| 12 | Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times . |
| 13 | It has been said that working in advertising will give you the most possible fun you can have with your clothes on , and the same might be said of sharedealing . |
| 14 | Much might be said of the relation between particular and general causal statements , but here a little must suffice . |
| 15 | The same might be said of the individuals in Britain considering themselves members of the ‘ middle class ’ : there is not an essential characteristic common to them all , which could be discovered by theoretical reflection . |
| 16 | It was not until Compline that his non-appearance provoked wonder , comment and finally uneasiness , for he was unrelenting in observance , whatever else might be said of him . |
| 17 | Much the same might be said of the keyboard repertory , particularly in Germany . |
| 18 | Something similar might be said of the following : ( 192 ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 19 | Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas . |
| 20 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 21 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 22 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 23 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 24 | Much the same could be said of Singapore . |
| 25 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 26 | The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter . |
| 27 | Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) . |
| 28 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | To take an even more famous imperial hero , perhaps the most famous of all , it could be said of T.E . |