Example sentences of "[be] say about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My name is I have been a shareholder and other members of my family for many years much has already been said about directors ' and your particular erm , fees in particular . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that despite all that 's been said about migration and I 'll come back to it , but we actually start , the county and ourselves , from the same point , more or less , within about four four dwelling I think . |
| 3 | This is one of those most probable state explanations , and may be compared with what has been said about meanders and beach cusps . |
| 4 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 5 | Simple-minded people sometimes think that everything 's been said about Hollywood . |
| 6 | What has been said about Tolkien 's poetry has an immediate bearing on that most attractive but least tractable subject , ‘ Tolkien 's mythology ’ . |
| 7 | Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text . |
| 8 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 9 | ENOUGH has been said about George Harrison and the Natural Law Party . |
| 10 | ‘ I hear what you 're saying about bodies being sucked into walls … and sometimes spat out again . |
| 11 | From what you fella 's have been saying about speeds form , he should be the man to drop . |
| 12 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 13 | You know what that ugly Jock 's been saying about Crilly ? ’ |
| 14 | What 's she been saying about Billy Rich ? |
| 15 | Jim McCarron , the committee chairman , said yesterday that Dr Forwell 's report underlined what politicians had been saying about Glasgow 's health record for a long time . |
| 16 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 17 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 18 | Watching Richard Arthurs was a lesson to us all , but what could be said about Ian Harrison ? ! |
| 19 | The best that can be said about marriage laws is that some of the variation may be explained along the lines proposed here . |
| 20 | Whatever else may be said about Britain 's standing abroad , one indisputable fact , albeit a somewhat dubious distinction , is that , in the field of sexually transmitted diseases , this country leads the world . |
| 21 | So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena . |
| 22 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 23 | The same can be said about music which provides an immensely satisfying spiritual experience for many people for whom religion is totally dead . |
| 24 | The first thing to be said about mistake is that it does not usually provide a defence , for liability in conversion is strict : |
| 25 | Now , if ever , between hymn and prayer , something ought to be said about Hilary . |
| 26 | This is the view that , because criticism works by being directed on existing knowledge claims , it follows that nothing in general can be said about criticism . |
| 27 | Much the same can be said about sentence parsing . |
| 28 | to be said about definitions but , particularly satire , is it 's very difficult to distinguish satire from other types of comedy . |
| 29 | There seems to be little that can be said about things which are familiar to writer and reader alike . |
| 30 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |