Example sentences of "same [noun sg] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many writers have expressed the view that intonation is used to convey our feelings and attitudes ; for example , the same sentence can be said in different ways , which might be labelled ‘ angry ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ grateful ’ , ‘ bored ’ , and so on .
2 Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body .
3 I replied the same thing could be said about running a successful club , but Bob was off , back into the night .
4 I realized with a shock the same thing could be said of me now and I 've got no hormones .
5 ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra .
6 The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice .
7 Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc .
8 But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’
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