Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 2 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 4 | If Chatterton chooses to flog , with the agreement of the committee , priceless port from the cellar , so long as the money is laundered through the entertainment account it allows him to be subsidised for a jaunt to Monte Carlo and no doubt Fishbane for nights of bliss with ladies from a call-girl agency . ’ |
| 5 | It would be foolish to make a strong claim about the salience of the JC STRUT vowel for LE speakers on the strength of limited data like this , but it does appear that for some speakers , this point of difference between LE and JC falls below a " salience threshold " which leads it to be ignored for adaptation purposes , while for other speakers it is salient enough to be adapted , but not consistently . |
| 6 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 7 | Some of the functionality — such as technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages bigger than 11″ by 17″ — that enables it to be sold for over $10,000 , has been stripped out . |