Example sentences of "[be] said for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 2 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 3 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 4 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to work for you , I 'm employed very nicely working for myself and the name of Morgan is respected already in town , which is more than can be said for that of the Grenfells . ’ |
| 6 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen . |
| 8 | ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 9 | There are improvements that can be made but that 's to be said for all animal husbandry systems , from pets , to guide dogs for the blind , and every other every other type of system . |
| 10 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 11 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 12 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 13 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 14 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 15 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 16 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 17 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 18 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 19 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 20 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 21 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |
| 22 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 23 | One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream . |
| 24 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 25 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 26 | Some people like to plan their trips in meticulous detail , but there 's a lot to be said for this ‘ open-book ’ approach . |
| 27 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 28 | Simon thought it sensible and practical ‘ which is more than can be said for most of their gimmicks , but ’ he warned her , ‘ if they like it they 'll take it over as their own . |
| 29 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 30 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |