Example sentences of "could be said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas . |
| 2 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 3 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 6 | Much the same could be said of Singapore . |
| 7 | I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones . |
| 8 | The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter . |
| 9 | Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) . |
| 10 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 11 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 12 | To take an even more famous imperial hero , perhaps the most famous of all , it could be said of T.E . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The same could be said of the Shakespearean or Homeric frame . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( The same could be said of Hafaz Assad in Syria , or Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria , though perhaps to a lesser degree . ) |
| 17 | He had courage , dignity and class , which was more than could be said of some of his judges . |
| 18 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |
| 19 | The same could be said of England ‘ B ’ because , apart from the regular England XV , many others — e.g. Redman , Robinson , Rodber , Pears , Hill , Hall , Heslop and Oti — were n't considered or available . |
| 20 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 21 | Exactly the same could be said of Leyland — and indeed it was , in the British press . |
| 22 | The same could be said of America 's Mr Bowe as heavyweight champion until he split his unified title by throwing the WBC belt in a dustbin and fighting a clumsy challenger , Michael Dokes . |
| 23 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 24 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 25 | The same could be said of Chimera who nonetheless seem to know where they want to go . |
| 26 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 27 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 28 | I do not believe , whatever I may mean by God , that it could be said of God that God was differently related to one age or people than God is related to all ages or people . |
| 29 | Nothing better could be said of poetry than that . |
| 30 | There would be some truth in the assertion that traffic commissioners have the welfare of " bus operators very much at heart when fixing fares ; similar things could be said of airline regulators . |