Example sentences of "that there be something to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 3 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 6 | " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side … |
| 7 | They have agreed that there was something to be discussed . |