Example sentences of "be say [prep] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved . |
| 2 | There 's something to be said for experiencing bad things and coming back and doing the business . |
| 3 | The states which made it up can be classified in several ways , but there is much to be said for distinguishing European states which had already existed in 1815 from those which had come into existence later . |
| 4 | Perhaps after all there was much to be said for remaining independent , carving out your own orbit . |
| 5 | The same can be said of receiving intuitive aromatherapy massage from a friend . |
| 6 | Armies also had to be fed , chiefly by purveyances ( or prises ) , that is to say by confiscating local crops and produce on the understanding that they would then or subsequently be paid for at a fair price , though often they were not . |