Example sentences of "[det] [prep] be say [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that .
2 There is much to be said for such a theory .
3 There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights .
4 There is much to be said for this explanation .
5 There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional .
6 ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that .
7 There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state .
8 There was no more to be said on that subject .
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