Example sentences of "[vb mod] be say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ii ) What can be said about the behaviour of accounting denominator and accounting numerator of a financial ratio and what are the implications for the ratio distribution ? |
| 32 | What can be said about the success of these attempts and the character of the debate ? |
| 33 | The same can be said about the goal of family-oriented intervention and the provision of after care . |
| 34 | And what a wonderful place , what more can be said about the bar ? |
| 35 | ‘ Practically the only good thing which can be said about the patronage system , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ is that it prevents dioceses selling off or pulling down at least some few of their beautiful buildings . ’ |
| 36 | More can be said about the justification , found by both Blumler et al . |
| 37 | Chief Superintendent Paul Green of Holborn Police said at the scene last night : ‘ The only thing that can be said about the target is that it was in one of London 's main streets at a very busy time . |
| 38 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 39 | And this is more than can be said for the majority of other books which have exploited the same theme : that of man battling away , amid ignorance and fear , against some novel , lethal , unknown microorganism . |
| 40 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 41 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 42 | The proposal does fit the situation — which is more than can be said for the compromise approach . |
| 43 | Its one saving grace is that it is water-tight , which is more than can be said for the tonneau cover . |
| 44 | Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others . |
| 45 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 46 | Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober . |
| 47 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 48 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 49 | There is also the case for state financing , which is the position of the Party but for the foreseeable future the Labour Party will need trades union money , and as Steve said even our fiercest critics have to admit that the money the union gives to the Party is open and above board and that 's more than can be said of the money that 's used to finance the Conservative Party . |
| 50 | The same can be said of the gold treasures thrown into the lagoon of Guatavita , Colombia , in the course of ceremonies to mark the appointment of successive rulers . |
| 51 | What , then , can be said of the contribution of teachers to the climate of opinion ? |
| 52 | The same can be said of the activity and products of educational research . |
| 53 | The photos are of variable quality , but often interesting ; the same can be said of the colour plates , which show an extraordinary range of service-specific camouflage clothing and insignia , but are sometimes rather stylised in appearance . |
| 54 | ‘ If the quantity of questioning and criticism has greatly increased , what can be said of the quality ? |
| 55 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 56 | The same can be said of the harvesting or slaughtering process itself . |
| 57 | What can be said in the meantime is that , in the current climate at Celtic Park , this internal strife is a hindrance the manager could certainly have done without . |
| 58 | However , given the nature of Scotland , with its urban concentration in the central belt , we accept the need to limit the numbers bought by one purchaser and will consider what can be said in the disposal programme , by which time the picture will be clearer . |