Example sentences of "[be] said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 2 | ‘ Solid , thorough , plodding , even , ’ ( that had been said of him by a Bromberg once to Frau Nordern — — but once only ) ‘ but kind in his shy way and decent to the very core . ’ |
| 3 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 4 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 5 | Nothing had been said of such matters during the interview : that , too , was the old Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | This gave us a further topic for conversation for , I hope , it might have been said of us ( in Demetrios Capetanakis 's famous line ) : ‘ They were so nice , and interested in cooking . ’ |
| 7 | It is a pity that the same could not have been said of the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders . |
| 8 | It could have been said of Ralph too . |
| 9 | For it has always been said of the eucharist that precisely it is not a play about the last supper — in which case the celebrant had best be male and semitic in appearance . |
| 10 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 11 | As for the mentioned activity , an attempt must be made to understand it in a way consonant with what has been said of contents and objects , that they are not states of affairs or ordinary things , and also with a further fact , that there are various modes of consciousness . |
| 12 | There was no officer gaping for a fee ; this could have been said of no city on the English side of the Tweed . ’ |
| 13 | Whether this could have been said of Halling I know not . |
| 14 | Ronny Johnsen — nothing more has been said of this in our press . |
| 15 | He asked why it was said that if Denmark and Britain rejected the treaty they would have to leave the EC , when this had not been said of France or Germany . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 19 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 20 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 21 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 22 | Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’ |
| 23 | And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ? |
| 24 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 27 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 28 | Professor Rhys , of Cardiff Business School , points out that the Essex plant is in an area of low unemployment and that the same could not be said of the other big plants . |
| 29 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 30 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |