Example sentences of "be said of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 2 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 3 | The same can not so readily be said of a man , who does not necessarily imprint his surroundings with personal feelings . |
| 4 | The calf is supposed to miss its mother as it might be said of a 4-year-old child . |
| 5 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 6 | The same may be said of a number of other rural districts designated under Section 19 of the Housing Act 1980 , ostensibly protected but in reality having quite large proportions of their stocks vulnerable . |
| 7 | It can never be said of a theory that it is true , however well it has withstood rigorous tests , but it can hopefully be said that a current theory is superior to its predecessors in the sense that it is able to withstand tests that falsified those predecessors . |
| 8 | This Government have implemented all 18 of the social measures that have so far been agreed under the social charter , which is more than can be said of a lot of our Community partners . |
| 9 | In the case of the substantive apple , it is obvious that the lexeme evoked by this word can only be applied to objects of our experience which are by nature apples : it can not be said of a pen or an eraser . |
| 10 | The same can not be said of a generalised advance disclosure . |
| 11 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 12 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 13 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 14 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 15 | Professor Rhys , of Cardiff Business School , points out that the Essex plant is in an area of low unemployment and that the same could not be said of the other big plants . |
| 16 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |
| 17 | The images of angels are much more ambiguous and capable of different interpretations ( this could , of course , be said of the angel theme generally as it recurs in the history of art , and in various guises across different cultures ) . |
| 18 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 19 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 20 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 21 | Precisely the same can be said of the many divine beings reverenced from within Hindu tradition . |
| 22 | The same may be said of the BMC engine but parts ( service items or for disasters ) are much more readily available for the LR unit . |
| 23 | The same may also be said of the existence of a right of appeal . |
| 24 | The same can be said of the next dog of great influence : Ch. |
| 25 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 26 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 27 | Again , it 's hard to describe the tones , but imagine this treble pickup as a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul and you 're getting the idea , and the same could probably be said of the front humbucker . |
| 28 | The same could be said of the recent Starfield and Chandler ranges , both of which we have looked at lately , and if this steering away from routine duplication is indeed a new trend , then it 's one which I applaud wholeheartedly . |
| 29 | The same could be said of the Shakespearean or Homeric frame . |
| 30 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |