Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course Harry would not want to be burdened with her , even if he could afford to start up his stud at Maythorpe House . |
| 2 | Frodo can see that Boromir would be ruined by the Ring if he took it , and even though he would quite like to dispose of it himself , he refuses to allow Boromir to be burdened with it . |
| 3 | In his haste to be gone on his mysteriously urgent errand , only the briefest of exchanges had taken place between the dark Maltese and her friends , while she was being returned like a sack of damp laundry to its rightful owners … |
| 4 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 5 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 6 | I think perhaps what 's going to be said to you to the rest of the day erm will actually bring out the key points tha that Hughie was trying , trying to make . |
| 7 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 8 | The Renaissance pulpit and the extremely grand organ above the west door have much to be said for them , but the overall effect of the interior is to drive you straight outside again to the restorative severity of tower , porch and portal . |
| 9 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 10 | Donald Davie , in a dispirited essay called ‘ Criticism and the Academy ’ , ruefully acknowledges that the belletrist criticism of men of letters such as Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly ( unequal figures , these , one has to remark ) might have more to be said for it than he , as a lifelong academic , would be happy to acknowledge : |
| 11 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 12 | This approach has much to be said for it , and certainly makes for equal treatment for shareholders , creditors and third parties , and equal terms in these respects for establishment in each member state . |
| 13 | The ‘ case-work ’ approach had much to be said for it in that it entailed a serious attempt to analyse the nature of the problem confronting the individual or family and to achieve a lasting solution without removing the clients from their familiar environment . |
| 14 | But Arudy has little to be said for it ; it is a small , mildly industrial town , best known for marking the spot where the glacier that once ground its way down the Ossau valley built a wall of debris , so causing the present-day Gave to make an abrupt swerve to westward . |
| 15 | However , where funds can be round , the award of bursaries for education and music tuition has much to be said for it . |
| 16 | ABBERLEY : A lot to be said for it . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's got quite a lot to be said for it , Bob . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 20 | So although Frazer was doing a kind of anthropology that was later to be rather dis despised , it had something to be said for it . |
| 21 | What you 're not likely to see is the peculiarities of , of the person erm showing themselves and if they do show too much , the likelihood is that the rest of the group will start to erm freeze out that individual , regardless because they 're no longer corresponding to the to the ideals of the group and er so consequently , erm I personally have no time for group psychoanalysis and I would never recommend it to anybody , although of course , for non-analytic things like losing weight or in stopping smoking or drinking , there 's a lot to be said for it , but one should n't confuse that kind of group reinforcement with erm analysis , cos analysis as we 've seen is quite different . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's her first full-scale novel , and I think there 's a lot to be said for it . |
| 24 | Thus Jesus is unique , for it is to be said of him as of none other that this is the man whom God raised , and his resurrection forms the turning-point of history . |
| 25 | The third statement is a dependent nomic conditional , while the first , whatever else is to be said of it , is not . |
| 26 | Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged . |
| 27 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 28 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 29 | But there is one more thing at least that needs to be said about it . |
| 30 | The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot . |