Example sentences of "said of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can also be said of many of the larger species of Cichlasoma which often end up as pets for a number of reasons . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This edition was found to be inadequate in several respects , and the same could be said of all editions until the eighteenth . |
| 8 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 9 | Much the same can be said of any reason for action . |
| 10 | But the question that arises is whether it can be said of any morality that it can not be divorced from religion . |
| 11 | The same can no doubt be said of any ‘ outillage mentale ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My conception is related , also , in that both conceptions derive in a direct way from our pre-theoretical , first-person grasp of consciousness , as can not be said of any of behaviourism , causalism , or functionalism , nor really of the logico-linguistic criterion , derived though it is from Brentano . |
| 14 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |
| 15 | That Aethelberht , king of Kent , exercised authority over his brother , Eadberht , is clear from the way in which it was necessary for Ealdwulf , bishop of Rochester , to secure confirmation of a grant of land from Eadberht in 738 from Aethelberht and Nothhelm , archbishop of Canterbury , acknowledging that he had erred in not doing so sooner ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but nothing is said of any necessity to secure Aethelbald 's confirmation . |
| 16 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 21 | More is said of these specific affinities in section 4.8 , below . |
| 22 | Frank Church , chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on multinational corporations , has said of these companies , ‘ No one knows how they operate , what their profits are , what they pay in taxes and what effect they have on our foreign policy — or much of anything else about them ’ ( quoted Morgan , 1979 , p. ix ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |
| 25 | But more will be said of this ‘ delinquent fringe ’ later . |
| 26 | The Spastics Society , for example , has said of this proposal : ‘ We are deeply concerned about any assumptions that the public provision of care for disabled people can be in the main shifted to the private and not-for-profit sector without serious consequences for disabled people . ’ |
| 27 | And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation . |
| 28 | Ronny Johnsen — nothing more has been said of this in our press . |
| 29 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 30 | Erica herself was entirely honest , and worked hard for her causes , but the same could not be said of some of her associates . |