Example sentences of "[be] said about " in BNC.

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1 This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes .
2 Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints .
3 ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said .
4 There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one .
5 No word has been said about his fears for his sons .
6 This account of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages may have been rather weighted towards the political , and perhaps , given the political complexion of the discussion , it may be surprising to many readers that more has not been said about the papacy .
7 ENOUGH has been said about George Harrison and the Natural Law Party .
8 It sounded like a remarkable vindication of the NHS in the face of all the disagreeable things that have been said about it recently .
9 Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature .
10 ‘ A lot has been said about the marvellous people who do look after Down 's Syndrome babies .
11 And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best .
12 What has already been said about thermal hazards can also apply at work .
13 Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes .
14 Much has been said about the ‘ information revolution ’ in the NHS .
15 Whilst a number of writers have commented upon his contributions to debates upon current policy problems , little has been said about the theoretical basis of these contributions .
16 A good deal has been said about his struggles on the greens in the last 28 months , but in Canada the situation was altogether different .
17 Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election .
18 What has been said about Tolkien 's poetry has an immediate bearing on that most attractive but least tractable subject , ‘ Tolkien 's mythology ’ .
19 Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions .
20 Given what has already been said about identity , it is unlikely that we shall find in the anorexic a unity of text .
21 WHILST much has been said about the abilities of the players , the coaches , the referees , the managers etc , little has been said about the standards of journalism .
22 WHILST much has been said about the abilities of the players , the coaches , the referees , the managers etc , little has been said about the standards of journalism .
23 Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information .
24 First , much has been said about the immediate effects of industrial action on the process of the project .
25 None of these hypotheses would seem to contradict what has been said about the management styles and organizational forms identified as likely to be appropriate in each quadrant of the uncertainty map .
26 Very little has been said about what actually happens or , at least , there are still few readily available accounts of school evaluations conducted by teachers .
27 Simple-minded people sometimes think that everything 's been said about Hollywood .
28 A lot of what has been said about make up has been very negative its to disguise or improve , its also an expression of er inner identity and its not something that 's new to the twentieth century , its something that we 've been doing you know since the beginning of time with war paint and what not .
29 Little had been said about the other regional aspect represented by unemployment and economic decline in the Special Areas .
30 A great deal has been said about the need to improve language skills in order to deal with the needs of trade and industry in the contemporary multi-lingual world .
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