Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] be said [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was more than could be said for Mr Gittings , the decorator . |
| 2 | Which was more than could be said for Geoff Tulloch . |
| 3 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 4 | The one thing that can be said with certainty about mildew is that it is unpredictable . |
| 5 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 6 | In conclusion , is there anything of a general nature that can be said about Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem ? |
| 7 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 8 | One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities . |
| 9 | well at least Hereford fans did n't have to watch their team beaten on Saturday … which is more than can be said for Gloucester folk … it was a long way home from sale after losing seventeen to nineteen |
| 10 | That is more than can be said of Rangers ' captain , Gough , and the rest . |
| 11 | That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect . |
| 12 | Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , as would be said in cricket , a ‘ ball being bowled ’ . |