Example sentences of "[was/were] said about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many rude things were said about Mme Cresson by opponents and rivals , but being a woman was not held against her , at least not overtly . |
| 2 | Moreover , a closer look at individual patients provides support for what was said about the heterogeneity of groups at the start of this section . |
| 3 | The same was said about Bassett 's Wimbledon , of course , and for a promoted team to take an unbeaten record and three-point lead into the season 's eighth week is an achievement in itself . |
| 4 | Nothing was said about the good , about the thriving community work and the community centre . |
| 5 | Little was said about the need to tackle public debt , now running at £15,000 for every man , woman and child in Italy . |
| 6 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 7 | Nothing was said about this , it just happened . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 9 | Two or three days after Miss Bedwelty 's visit the team found that nobody pressed them to practise anything , nothing was said about another riding lesson and life was refreshingly peaceful . |
| 10 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 11 | For example , not a word was said about Europe — the factor most likely in the next decade to change the terms of the British political and economic game . |
| 12 | We were warned not to dress in our parents ' clothes and he threatened Frankie with his belt , but nothing more was said about it . |
| 13 | Little more was said about the case except that several days later , the Sunday Mirror gave the sad outcome of the victim 's ordeal : HOSPITAL AGONY OF THE BIG ‘ UN . |
| 14 | Nothing was said about Toulouse , though the Capetian line on this was clear : the question could only be settled by a judgement in the court of the feudal overlord , in other words in the court of King Louis . |
| 15 | Nothing was said about ransom on the television , but the officer who interviewed me , Chief Inspector Golding , said Tristram Abberley 's letters were demanded . |
| 16 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 17 | ‘ Having mot attended a BA conference since Eastbourne 1987 , ’ Mr Giles said , ‘ I was surprised to discover that the conference was somewhat inward-looking , and that so little was said about the consumer , on whom our wages depend . |
| 18 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 19 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 20 | I agree with what was said about joyriding . |
| 21 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 22 | Almost all of what was said about this in Chapter 3 is relevant wherever TNCs create jobs , but there are some additional factors to be considered where this occurs in the Third World . |
| 23 | So no more was said about that . |
| 24 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 25 | Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose . |
| 26 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 27 | In the past , whatever was said about his methods , he probably won even more matches for his side than was appreciated . |
| 28 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 29 | And then nothing more was said about that . |
| 30 | Now , nothing was said about it . |