Example sentences of "be say of [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are sometimes obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 6 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 7 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |