Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ? |
| 2 | ‘ One would like it to be said of oneself . ’ |
| 3 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 4 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 5 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 6 | Thus Jesus is unique , for it is to be said of him as of none other that this is the man whom God raised , and his resurrection forms the turning-point of history . |
| 7 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 8 | The third statement is a dependent nomic conditional , while the first , whatever else is to be said of it , is not . |
| 9 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 10 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 11 | Concerts : At the moment concert programmes in the sport arenas tend to be compiled of 5–10 bands , rather than one main act . |
| 12 | There are two different versions to be discerned of the intensional pattern behind the surface structure adjective + noun , depending on what exactly the adjectival property qualifies . |
| 13 | All they found was whatever was in their imaginations ( not to be despised of course , but the reality of finding something is not available ) . |
| 14 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 15 | In this form they are to be conceived of as ad hoc , dispute-resolving mechanisms . |
| 16 | Such accounts cast doubt on whether an understanding of reality is to be conceived of as the primary goal of science or the actual nature of its achievement . |
| 17 | This perhaps links with the lack of awareness of Britain as a multilingual society referred to above — on the whole teaching methods seem to be conceived of a primarily technical , with little regard for the links between techniques and methods used and more general educational and social questions . |
| 18 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 19 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
| 20 | Travellers stripped of their possessions and disappearing into castle dungeons , never to be heard of again . |
| 21 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 22 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
| 23 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has persuaded the Gould Inc subsidiary of Nikko Kyodo Co Inc — which wanted to be shot of Encore altogether when it bought Gould , but has had to keep the company in the fold and bankroll it to have a chance of realising any value from it — to increase its revolving credit facility by $20m ; the pact also extends the maturity dates of Encore 's $50m term loan agreement to April 2 1995 , and the $35m increased revolving credit pact to July 3 1994 . |
| 24 | In fact the woman was fed up with the smell that the tomcat caused about the place and was glad to be shot of it . |
| 25 | Shares of the reporting entity are to be classified as equity or non-equity and an analysis is to be presented of shareholders ' funds between the amounts attributable to equity and non-equity shares . |
| 26 | In consolidated financial statements a similar analysis is to be presented of the amounts of minority interest attributable to equity and non-equity shares issued by subsidiaries . |
| 27 | It can be seen from this that the data can not always be taken at face value and that users need to be warned of these problems . |
| 28 | GPs are to be warned of the side effects of prescribing steroids to children after a nine year old girl died after taking the drugs . |
| 29 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 30 | But overall , the report says more information 's needed and it calls for a careful record to be kept of all future suicides and attempts . |