Example sentences of "say of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 2 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 3 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 4 | as I say of different people |
| 5 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |
| 6 | Michel Foucault ( 1977 : 130 ) says of penological ‘ classicists ’ such as Beccaria ( of whom more shortly ) that they ‘ saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects , as juridical subjects ’ . |
| 7 | One commentator says of lay members : |
| 8 | Tina Turner says of ex-husband Ike : ‘ I looked on him as big brother and mentor but , after our marriage , he revealed a terrible temper . |
| 9 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 10 | He says of carnal intimacy with a prophylactic that it is ‘ not so bad ’ . |
| 11 | The same can be said of individual schools . |
| 12 | It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 16 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 17 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem . |
| 23 | The same can then be said of social and stylistic factors . |
| 24 | Can the same be said of military firing at those times ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’ |
| 27 | A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals . |
| 28 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 29 | Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss : |
| 30 | As Gould , an admirer of Goldschmidt , said of dung-mimicking insects : " can there be any edge in looking 5 per cent like a turd ? " |