Example sentences of "[be] said of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you do live in a village you will almost certainly know your vicar , and the same could be said of inner-city communities . |
| 2 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 3 | The same would be said of two men with individual sights on the record book . |
| 4 | The same can be said of individual schools . |
| 5 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 6 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 7 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 8 | This can also be said of many of the larger species of Cichlasoma which often end up as pets for a number of reasons . |
| 9 | It may be said of many palaeontologists , as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians : " Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What we mainly have in answer so far , about causes and causal circumstances , is that they stand in seven connections — the last three of which are also fundamental to what will be said of nomic correlates . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This edition was found to be inadequate in several respects , and the same could be said of all editions until the eighteenth . |
| 14 | Leaving aside several other good attempts to explain the difference between causes and causal circumstances and their effects , and also what can be said of great obstacles in the way of these attempts ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 7 , 1979 ; Ayer , 1984a ; Sanford , 1976 , 1985 ; Papineau , 1985b ; Honderich , 1986 ) , let us return to and concentrate on our ordinary convictions about the difference . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Much the same can be said of any reason for action . |
| 17 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 18 | The same can no doubt be said of any ‘ outillage mentale ’ . |
| 19 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 20 | My conception is related , also , in that both conceptions derive in a direct way from our pre-theoretical , first-person grasp of consciousness , as can not be said of any of behaviourism , causalism , or functionalism , nor really of the logico-linguistic criterion , derived though it is from Brentano . |
| 21 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |
| 22 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 23 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 24 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 25 | Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’ |
| 26 | The same can then be said of social and stylistic factors . |
| 27 | Much the same could be said of academic journals , for example , in which the development of a particular format contributes to the authority of any one article . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 29 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 30 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |