Example sentences of "to be said about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 2 | ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . ) |
| 3 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 4 | But there is more to be said about Lawrence ; much more than was usually said in the days when he was celebrated as a prophet of straight liberation , and more than is oft en said when he is castigated from the vantage point of contemporary sexual politics . |
| 5 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |
| 6 | It is these two rituals which will be the main focus of this essay , but before turning to their specific analysis a few more words need to be said about the general blood context and the male-female hierarchy at work within it . |
| 7 | But first , something has to be said about consciousness and intentions , because in everyday life we interpret our own behaviour in these terms , and it seems natural to do the same for animals . |
| 8 | Not much new to be said about Richard Strauss 's Elektra at this date you might think , but you would be wrong . |
| 9 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |
| 10 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 11 | Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged . |
| 12 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
| 13 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 14 | The magazine Field and Stream published this delightfully tongue-in-cheek review which says all that needs to be said about innocence and incorruptibility : |
| 15 | A word ought here to be said about supernovae , since they play a crucial role in the creation of planets and of life itself . |
| 16 | But there is something more to be said about the focusing of attention on the present and oneself . |
| 17 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 18 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 19 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 20 | There is nothing much more to be said about the siege of Krishnapur . |
| 21 | More needs to be said about our conviction , but here we have something . |
| 22 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 23 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 24 | But there is still more to be said about linguistic norms . |
| 25 | There is only one other thing to be said about the hedgerows of parliamentary enclosure , and that is when precisely they were made . |
| 26 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 27 | For this reason alone , something has to be said about the predominance of the female nude in European art from the mid-19th century . |
| 28 | But there is one more thing at least that needs to be said about it . |
| 29 | The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot . |
| 30 | But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it . |