Example sentences of "it [be] said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | May it be said of you that you found Paris stinking and left it sweet . ’ |
| 2 | Whether it is said of Krishna or Vishnu or Siva , the same structure of religious thought recurs . |
| 3 | ‘ It is said of her grandmother that the only members of the cabinet who were not her lovers were those who had reason to believe they were her father , ’ Society Wag , Darling |
| 4 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 5 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 6 | Like adjectives , verbs also have external incidence : their lexical content evokes a state or process which does not of itself define what it is said of . |
| 7 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 8 | To say that someone votes Conservative is not a libel — unless it be said of a Labour MP , and in consequence , would be defamatory in its implication of personal and political hypocrisy . |
| 9 | It was said of An Ideal Husband that the characters of Lord Goring , Lord Caversham and Mrs Chevely were the work of Oscar Wilde and Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern of Fingal O'Flaherty . |
| 10 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 11 | In Eliza Vaughan 's day it was said of Courtfield : ‘ You nearly break your neck going , but more nearly break your heart leaving there . ’ |
| 12 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 13 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 14 | It was said of the younger Duke ( 1733–1806 ) that he intended to cover all the surrounding hills with evergreen woods , and many of the finest hardy exotic trees in this country were to be found in the park . |
| 15 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 16 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 17 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 18 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 19 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 20 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 21 | It was said of him that ‘ the untiring perseverance with which he prosecuted his researches for evidence in any particular subject was inconceivable ’ . |
| 22 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 23 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 24 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 25 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 26 | It was said of Vaughan that he was ‘ esteemed by scholars , an ingenious person , but proud and humorous ’ . |
| 27 | He enjoyed talking about art with Rodrigo and , respecting his resoluteness ( it was said of him that he was the only Sohoite to be arrested for being drunk and orderly ) , asked him to act , with Anthony Lousada , as his executor . |
| 28 | As a young man he was a charming and lively companion , and it was said of him that ‘ a person more invariably gentle , kind , considerate and affectionate , did not exist . ’ |
| 29 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 30 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |