Example sentences of "be said about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning from our detour , what , if anything , can be said about regulated and publicly owned companies compared with public liability companies ? |
| 2 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 3 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 4 | This means that something at least must be said about alternative types of ambiguity , although a detailed treatment would be well beyond the scope of this book . |
| 5 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 6 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 7 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 8 | The same can be said about Constant Lambert 's arrangement of Auber 's music for Ashton 's Les Rendezvous and Meyerbeer 's for Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 9 | But there is still more to be said about linguistic norms . |