Example sentences of "it be said of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 2 | To say that someone votes Conservative is not a libel — unless it be said of a Labour MP , and in consequence , would be defamatory in its implication of personal and political hypocrisy . |
| 3 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 4 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 5 | It was said of An Ideal Husband that the characters of Lord Goring , Lord Caversham and Mrs Chevely were the work of Oscar Wilde and Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern of Fingal O'Flaherty . |