Example sentences of "[prep] be said [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 2 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 3 | There is only one other thing to be said about the hedgerows of parliamentary enclosure , and that is when precisely they were made . |
| 4 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 5 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 6 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |