Example sentences of "to be said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ? |
| 2 | ‘ One would like it to be said of oneself . ’ |
| 3 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 4 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 5 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 6 | Thus Jesus is unique , for it is to be said of him as of none other that this is the man whom God raised , and his resurrection forms the turning-point of history . |
| 7 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 8 | The third statement is a dependent nomic conditional , while the first , whatever else is to be said of it , is not . |
| 9 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 10 | 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 . |