Example sentences of "[modal v] be said [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be said on James 's behalf that he refrained from doing so . |
| 2 | Above all they believe that that must be said of Christ which is to be said of no other human being . |
| 3 | The same might be said of Giscard d'Estaing 's less populist party , the ‘ Union pour la Democratie Française ’ . |
| 4 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 5 | Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times . |
| 6 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 7 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 8 | The same could be said for Belgium . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 11 | Which was more than could be said for Geoff Tulloch . |
| 12 | Which was more than could be said for Mr Gittings , the decorator . |
| 13 | The same could be said of Sparta and her internal relations ( which as we saw affected external relations too ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To take an even more famous imperial hero , perhaps the most famous of all , it could be said of T.E . |
| 17 | The same could be said of Kent 's Matthew Fleming , whose flair for adventure would have thrilled his late Uncle Ian to bits . |
| 18 | Exactly the same could be said of Leyland — and indeed it was , in the British press . |
| 19 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 20 | Much the same could be said of Singapore . |
| 21 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The same could be said of Chimera who nonetheless seem to know where they want to go . |
| 24 | ( The same could be said of Hafaz Assad in Syria , or Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria , though perhaps to a lesser degree . ) |
| 25 | Pontypool are not the force they were … some fear it could be said of Gloucester too … not after this win … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The same could be said of Miller , Golding and D.C. Finch , who contrived to look more like miscellaneous employees of the undertaker than police officers , let alone friends of the deceased . |
| 28 | The same could be said of Brooke-Rose 's attitude toward fiction . |
| 29 | Watching Richard Arthurs was a lesson to us all , but what could be said about Ian Harrison ? ! |
| 30 | The same could be said about Tokyo . |