Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] to [be] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there may be something to be said for the notion of denunciation . |
| 3 | When foreign-language teachers are nowadays being encouraged to ‘ play the role of a sympathetic native speaker ’ , there must be something to be said for their actually being ‘ sympathetic native speakers ’ . |
| 4 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 5 | There is nothing to be said for propounding the philosophy of history if you do not know the date of the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 6 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 7 | A periodical reunion of the deaf of Great Britain and Ireland should always occur , and there is everything to be said in its favour . |
| 8 | There is something to be said at least for Housman 's management of form and structure , his transposition of the general content of his original . |
| 9 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 10 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 11 | As marriage partners view themselves with regard to the prospect of being loved there is something to be said for considering the phileo model . |
| 12 | It is , first of all , the only view according to the internal constitutional laws of the Dominions affected , and there is something to be said for avoiding conflicts of constitutional laws . |
| 13 | However , there is something to be said for being kept waiting by a buyer . |
| 14 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 15 | There is something to be said for having a well-fed appearance . ’ |
| 16 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 19 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 20 | But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances . |
| 21 | The soft woods ; pine , spruce or larch are rather vulgar ; but there is something to be said for a really old vintage larch root . |
| 22 | No doubt there is something to be said for beginning this task all over again , and for using a new technique for the purpose . |
| 23 | Even though the spreadsheet will act like a financial calculator and tell you all about your savings plan there is something to be said for actually seeing your money grow . |
| 24 | This year 's income may be a poor indicator of a household 's true economic spending power , and there is something to be said for basing the tax assessment on property values . |
| 25 | If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework . |
| 26 | So , but there is something to be said for it I 'm certainly not running it down , what I am saying is you ca n't . |
| 27 | Yes , but I think there is something to be said for communicating this in a different way . |
| 28 | 3.8.2 with effect from the Possession Date pay and indemnify the Landlord against all rates taxes assessments duties charges impositions and outgoings from time to time charged upon the Premises or the owner or occupier of them Although unlikely to have such a constriction placed on it , there is something to be said for inserting a similar exclusion into this clause to that inserted in clause 5.2.1 of the lease . |
| 29 | There is something to be said for an industry ombudsman , who would certainly command greater respect than the in-house prefects appointed by some proprietors . |
| 30 | I mean , th there is something to be said for the manner towards you is n't there ? |