Example sentences of "said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that something at least must be said about alternative types of ambiguity , although a detailed treatment would be well beyond the scope of this book . |
| 2 | After what we 've said about visual support , it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture . |
| 3 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 4 | ‘ There has n't been anything said about foul play yet . ’ |
| 5 | Returning from our detour , what , if anything , can be said about regulated and publicly owned companies compared with public liability companies ? |
| 6 | She repeated what Rosalind Swain had said about odd things happening in adolescence , about adolescents harbouring poltergeists . |
| 7 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 8 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 9 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 10 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 11 | Chesarynth remembered what the old witch had said about young girls . |
| 12 | He told them what Barbara Coleman had said about Sabine Jourdain and Durance . |
| 13 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 14 | It also acknowledges its debt in what is said about electronic instruments to Repair or Replace ? |
| 15 | A good deal is said about nuclear proliferation and Goldschmidt staunchly defends France 's uncompromising stance on trading in uranium . |
| 16 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 17 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 18 | It is often said about notorious criminals that they have no feelings . |
| 19 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 20 | Nor was anything said about unsolved mysteries such as the widespread dieback of ash trees , which the Commission itself had studied since 1960 . |
| 21 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 22 | ‘ From what you 've said about Airborne , he 's also into some dodgy share dealings . |
| 23 | The same can be said about Constant Lambert 's arrangement of Auber 's music for Ashton 's Les Rendezvous and Meyerbeer 's for Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 24 | What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work . |
| 25 | Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes . |
| 26 | But there is still more to be said about linguistic norms . |
| 27 | By and large everything I have said about locked rooms applies to " impossible crimes " and they can be as fascinating to invent as to read . |
| 28 | Nor has anything been said about precise method . |
| 29 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 30 | This was said through gritted teeth . |