Example sentences of "[be] said of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Rhys , of Cardiff Business School , points out that the Essex plant is in an area of low unemployment and that the same could not be said of the other big plants . |
| 2 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly , vaginal penetration with a penis may lead to pregnancy which can not be said of the other forms of sexual assault at issue . |
| 4 | Something similar might be said of the following : ( 192 ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Again , it 's hard to describe the tones , but imagine this treble pickup as a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul and you 're getting the idea , and the same could probably be said of the front humbucker . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The worst that can be said of the new minister is that he " undoubtedly possessed a definite political programme , but he was too cautious and too indecisive to carry it out " . |
| 9 | Little need be said of the declared hallmarks of the proper procedures of tribunals of ‘ openness , fairness and impartiality ’ . |
| 10 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 11 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |
| 12 | The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 15 | This can not be said of the relational algebra and it is more ‘ user friendly ’ than a straight relational calculus language such as QUEL or SCL . |
| 16 | Much the same can be said of the widespread use of ‘ suggestion schemes ’ , which although not compulsory are so widespread that employees feel obliged to participate in them . |
| 17 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 18 | The same could be said of the Shakespearean or Homeric frame . |