Example sentences of "[adv] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 2 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 3 | It was only said in good fun , nothing malicious . |
| 4 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 5 | It was true that Naylor Massingham had apparently said to Travis 's mother that Travis was a big lad now , but Travis was hurting like the devil inside and was consequently not handling his unhappiness and loneliness in a very ‘ big lad ’ fashion . |
| 6 | New Scientist , in an article by Stephen Salter , explained that simplicity was not synonymous with efficiency or even soundness and that failure of a project is often wrongly said to be because of its complexity . |
| 7 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 8 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 9 | It may be justly said of embalming , that it is undeniably the most considerable and efficacious means to answer their intentions . ’ |
| 10 | There is more to be said , but it will be better said in reply other related objections . |
| 11 | If nothing is expressly said about the rights of one class in respect of either ( a ) dividends , ( b ) return of capital , or ( c ) attendance at meetings or voting , then , prima facie , that class has the same rights in that respect as the residuary ordinary shares . |
| 12 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 13 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 14 | The statement of the Propaganda Minister that Hitler had a ‘ sixth sense ’ for seeing what remained hidden to ordinary mortals was sarcastically said by a young secretary to explain his choice of Italy as an ally . |
| 15 | Sinead has since said of her time at Grianan : ‘ I have never , and probably never will again , experienced such panic and terror and agony over anything . ’ |
| 16 | She looked , in fact , blowzy but good-humoured , and of an age which is usually politely said to be around thirty-five . |
| 17 | But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ? |
| 18 | She 's not said about me being out of it , but erm , see if you do that , you see , you get a year in France . |
| 19 | Had he not said on more than one occasion , his voice weary with self-righteousness , ‘ I ask so little from you Opal … . ’ |
| 20 | It is not said on the form containing the request that the judicial view will be treated as confidential , but it has always been so regarded by the Lord Chief Justice and the judges . |
| 21 | For instance , who amongst us has not said at one time or another : |
| 22 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 23 | Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted . |
| 24 | Although not said to be X500-compliant , Novell Network Registry is ‘ fully compatible ’ with Novell products and those of partners throughout the network . |
| 25 | Although it is a consonantal loss , it is not said to be ugly or careless in England generally . |
| 26 | ‘ That was not said to me , ’ reflected Robert with slightly affronted dignity . |
| 27 | ‘ language or conduct is not said to be insulting unless it is intended to show contempt or disesteem , or is understood by the hearer or observer to show this attitude . ’ |
| 28 | Kenya has about one million flamingos living around lakes Nakuru and Bogoria , a major tourist attraction , and the species ' survival is not said to be threatened by the epidemic , which is expected to die down in about a month . |
| 29 | I 'm sure that he has not said to you that you can do work other than your religious studies at the moment , so that 's what you should be doing but you say he has and we will check it later . |
| 30 | This is not said to be mean , but to protect Lennie from getting into trouble because of his fascination for her . |