Example sentences of "could be say [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 2 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 3 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 5 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 6 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |