Example sentences of "be said of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The same can be said of individual schools .
3 And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles .
4 Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’
9 The same can then be said of social and stylistic factors .
10 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 .
11 Unfortunately , the same can not be said of British primary legislation , where ascertaining the date of commencement can be a substantial problem .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Can the same be said of military firing at those times ?
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