Example sentences of "[det] could be said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed .
2 This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying .
3 When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject .
4 The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description .
5 Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests .
6 Firmness was all that could be said for it .
7 The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it .
8 Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult .
9 While all could be said to be right-wing , their sympathies were not identical where other countries were concerned .
10 Much more could be said about assimilation , but from the point of view of learning or teaching English pronunciation , to do so would not be very useful .
11 Much more could be said of the implications of a natural-narrative analysis here .
12 The same could be said about Tokyo .
13 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 .
14 Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest .
15 Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest .
16 If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters .
17 I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity .
18 The same could be said for Christianity .
19 I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices .
20 But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur .
21 Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals .
22 The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears .
23 The same could be said for his successor .
24 ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list .
25 The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities .
26 The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field .
27 The same could be said for Belgium .
28 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 .
29 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 ’ .
30 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 .
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