Example sentences of "to be said [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 2 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 3 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 4 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 5 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 6 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 7 | One paragraph on rainforest conservation , for example , could be quoted more widely — it says all that needs to be said in 15 eloquent lines . |