Example sentences of "[art] [adj] could be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Fourth Symphony to some extent thrives on Brüggen 's extrovert approach , the Pastoral could be said to be diminished by it . |
| 2 | The same could be said about Tokyo . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 5 | Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas . |
| 6 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 7 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 8 | Much the same could be said of Singapore . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The same could be said of the recent Starfield and Chandler ranges , both of which we have looked at lately , and if this steering away from routine duplication is indeed a new trend , then it 's one which I applaud wholeheartedly . |
| 13 | The same could be said of the Shakespearean or Homeric frame . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( The same could be said of Hafaz Assad in Syria , or Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria , though perhaps to a lesser degree . ) |
| 16 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Exactly the same could be said of Leyland — and indeed it was , in the British press . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 21 | The same could be said of Chimera who nonetheless seem to know where they want to go . |
| 22 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 23 | The same could be said of Sparta and her internal relations ( which as we saw affected external relations too ) . |
| 24 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 25 | But of course the same could be said of the situation in Lace v. Chantler [ 1944 ] K.B . |
| 26 | The same could be said of Kent 's Matthew Fleming , whose flair for adventure would have thrilled his late Uncle Ian to bits . |
| 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 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 29 | The same could be said of Brooke-Rose 's attitude toward fiction . |
| 30 | The same could be said of carbonate deposition in the mid-Silurian . |