Example sentences of "could be said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 2 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 3 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 4 | This edition was found to be inadequate in several respects , and the same could be said of all editions until the eighteenth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had courage , dignity and class , which was more than could be said of some of his judges . |
| 7 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 8 | This , of course , could be said of any of Edward 's leading associates , since it was their relationship to the crown which allowed them to draw lesser royal servants into their service . |
| 9 | The same could be said of most of these awards , which are simply a perk of the post , along with the £60,000 or £70,000 salary , retirement at sixty , and an index-linked pension thereafter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Much could be said about all these characteristics but of most significance for our purpose is the role of impartiality in relation to legislative and legal reasoning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There are cases where technical terms are conventionally used , but add nothing to what could be said in simpler ways : e.g. etymology simply means ‘ the history of a word ’ , and morphology simply means ‘ word structure , . |