Example sentences of "[adj] could be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 2 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 3 | If the Fourth Symphony to some extent thrives on Brüggen 's extrovert approach , the Pastoral could be said to be diminished by it . |
| 4 | The relationship with humans may be such that plants are no longer clearly ‘ wild ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , the forests including several ‘ cultigens ’ like the betel nut or Uncaria gambir ( Rubiaceae ) , an important tan source in Asia ; similar could be said of the date in north Africa and Arabia . |
| 5 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 6 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 7 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 8 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 9 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 10 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 11 | Nothing better could be said of poetry than that . |
| 12 | While all could be said to be right-wing , their sympathies were not identical where other countries were concerned . |
| 13 | Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful . |
| 14 | Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here . |
| 15 | The same could be said about Tokyo . |
| 16 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 17 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 18 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 19 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 20 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 21 | The same could be said for Christianity . |
| 22 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 23 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 24 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 25 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 26 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 27 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 28 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 29 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 30 | The same could be said for Belgium . |