Example sentences of "said about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , as New Scientist reported , true to its function ( as a barrister once said about a toilet roll revolving when stood on , causing injury ) the Home Office had held an exercise about an attack on Britain by the USSR . |
| 2 | What was it they said about a murderer returning to the scene of his crime ? |
| 3 | ‘ You were right , what you said about a triumph for the working man . |
| 4 | So getting back you know the fact that you said about a limited income so what does that in terms of foods you buy , what kind of things do you find do you buy actually s |
| 5 | ( I remember he once said about a Mondrian — ‘ It is n't whether you like it , but whether you ought to like it ’ — I mean , he dislikes abstract art on principle . |
| 6 | There is something in what he said about a prospective demographic change over the next 10 or 20 years . |
| 7 | Oh it was just erm cos it said about , cos I could n't work it out cos he said about a reference which was |
| 8 | He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident . |
| 9 | they said about a quarter of my salary did n't they ? |
| 10 | Nan said about a father Christmas . |
| 11 | Playbus said about a horse which goes slowly . |
| 12 | He said about a tenner . |
| 13 | Said about a fortnight you might , you might have this new erm this new car . |
| 14 | I said about a million times . |
| 15 | They said about an hour . ’ |
| 16 | - Stationers start overflowing with 1990 calendars , bearing pictures of thatched kittens. - After yet another new TV series , you start regretting all the rude things you said about the summer repeats . |
| 17 | The first omission was regarded by some of his ministerial colleagues as an eccentricity bordering on the provocative , especially after the injunctions from Michael Heseltine and Sir Geoffrey Howe to take more seriously the balance of payments figures and what they said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 18 | Both he and Mr Heseltine warned against making light of the huge trade deficit and what it said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 19 | For all her tempering in the fires of history , she remained an impassioned idealist to the end of her long life , though with enough self-knowledge and self-irony to be able to record what Milena Jesenska said about the difference between them — ‘ What an incurable girl guide you are . |
| 20 | But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television . |
| 21 | From an early stage in fieldwork I found it necessary to make a special index to notes which recorded what Zuwaya said about the past , for it was clear that these references and descriptions were recurrent themes . |
| 22 | There have been many volumes written on the Cotswold wool trade but comparatively little ever said about the silk industry . |
| 23 | Chris Elworty , Marketing Development manager for Canon said about the award , ‘ It was a unanimous decision to commend the Guardian for both its use of original material and unusual treatment of pictures in the page . ’ |
| 24 | This old lady came out and said about the cough — she gave me a dose of cough medicine . |
| 25 | It is interesting , in the light of the above , to note what Preobrazhensky said about the law of value : ‘ The law of value is the law of spontaneous equilibrium of commodity-capitalist society . ’ |
| 26 | The President of the Royal Town Planning Institute , in a speech in December 1988 , said about the Isle of Dogs : |
| 27 | Jennings was right , and bright , to highlight one thing I said about the artistic choices behind the show . |
| 28 | In spite of what Mr Kawawa said about the inevitability of capitalists ' misusing their press in a country like Tanzania , no plans were made at that time to take over the Standard . |
| 29 | The second relates to what I said about the evaporation/solar-flares analogy being an external relation . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |