Example sentences of "could be said [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 2 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 3 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 4 | The relationship with humans may be such that plants are no longer clearly ‘ wild ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , the forests including several ‘ cultigens ’ like the betel nut or Uncaria gambir ( Rubiaceae ) , an important tan source in Asia ; similar could be said of the date in north Africa and Arabia . |
| 5 | But of course the same could be said of the situation in Lace v. Chantler [ 1944 ] K.B . |