Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] be said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight .
5 The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups .
6 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 .
7 The same can be said of individual schools .
8 Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’
9 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 .
10 All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’
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