Example sentences of "said of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 2 | Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss : |
| 3 | For example the development officer said of one client : |
| 4 | As Gould , an admirer of Goldschmidt , said of dung-mimicking insects : " can there be any edge in looking 5 per cent like a turd ? " |
| 5 | said of undue influence : |
| 6 | Winston Churchill said of atomic energy in 1939 , ‘ It might be as good as present day explosives , but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous . ’ |
| 7 | Warner v. Browne , 8 East 165 said of that case , 50 L.J.Q.B. 121 , 124 : |
| 8 | Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible . |
| 9 | He said of holy relics : ‘ England is almost the only country in the world where there is not some favourite religious spot where absurd lies , little bits of cloth , feathers , splinters , rusty nails and other invaluable relics are treasured up and in defence of which the whole population are willing to turn out and perish as one man . ’ |
| 10 | This distinction has importance not least because it is often ( mistakenly ) said of local authority accounts that they are essentially cash accounts . |
| 11 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he said of those clockmakers who were attempting to make such a timepiece that ‘ they can not quite perfect their work ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Mediocrity seeks to endure by every means , ’ he said of these lions , and in a country where so much has disappeared the lions remain , unferocious , glum , like doped circus animals . |
| 14 | Rogers is now established as a United first-teamer , and Bassett said of 20-year-old Scott : ‘ He also has the potential to make the grade . ’ |
| 15 | David Shields , marketing manager of the American-controlled National Magazines , publishers of Cosmopolitan , Good Housekeeping , Country Living , She , and Harpers & Queen , said of retail display allowances : ‘ It is not something we would like to encourage here . ’ |
| 16 | He once said of this discovery : |
| 17 | In Hedley Byrne & Co. v. Heller & Partners ( below , p. 338 ) Lord Devlin said of this case : ‘ … |
| 18 | ‘ People would talk to me , ’ he said of this period in his life . |
| 19 | Just under half the teachers I spoke to broadly agreed with the two who said of this collection of questions : ‘ very establishment ’ and ‘ obviously class-biased , sex-biased and race-biased ’ . |