Example sentences of "to be say for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 2 | There 's a lot to be said for Wilko 's tough attitude too . |
| 3 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 4 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 5 | First of all , there is much to be said for simplicity which , in Canada and New South Wales , has been achieved in part by including within the scale a far narrower range of former offences than is the case in Michigan . |
| 6 | It is submitted that there is a great deal to be said for Browne LJ 's view . |
| 7 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 8 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |
| 9 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |
| 10 | Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable . |
| 11 | Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation . |