Example sentences of "[modal v] be said of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 2 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 3 | This edition was found to be inadequate in several respects , and the same could be said of all editions until the eighteenth . |
| 4 | But if you do live in a village you will almost certainly know your vicar , and the same could be said of inner-city communities . |
| 5 | He had courage , dignity and class , which was more than could be said of some of his judges . |
| 6 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 7 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 8 | The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter . |
| 9 | Much the same could be said of academic journals , for example , in which the development of a particular format contributes to the authority of any one article . |
| 10 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 11 | It may be said of many palaeontologists , as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians : " Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present " . |
| 12 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |
| 13 | The same would be said of two men with individual sights on the record book . |
| 14 | What we mainly have in answer so far , about causes and causal circumstances , is that they stand in seven connections — the last three of which are also fundamental to what will be said of nomic correlates . |
| 15 | A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals . |
| 16 | But more will be said of this ‘ delinquent fringe ’ later . |
| 17 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 18 | The same can be said of individual schools . |
| 19 | Leaving aside several other good attempts to explain the difference between causes and causal circumstances and their effects , and also what can be said of great obstacles in the way of these attempts ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 7 , 1979 ; Ayer , 1984a ; Sanford , 1976 , 1985 ; Papineau , 1985b ; Honderich , 1986 ) , let us return to and concentrate on our ordinary convictions about the difference . |
| 20 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 21 | Also straights can vary tremendously in quality although the same can be said of some compound feeds by the way ! |
| 22 | Which is more than can be said of some burger bars and ‘ diners ’ where the staff are young , dour and ca n't get home quick enough to swap their multinational uniforms for day-glo tracksuits and trainers ( I wonder where that fashion came from ? ) . |
| 23 | Much the same can be said of any reason for action . |
| 24 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 25 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 26 | Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’ |