Example sentences of "be said [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other two syllables will normally be much less prominent , and be said on a level pitch . |
| 2 | It used to be said with a considerable amount of justification that you could get as far as Inspector on your own bat but after that ‘ No ’ , you needed somebody pushing you — city councillor , anything . |
| 3 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 4 | Finally , there may be something to be said for a non-exhaustive list of situations in which consent will be negatived . |
| 5 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 6 | For all its faults , it can at least be said for the modern world that it has produced a substantial body of articulate opinion that blends passion with compassion in its concern for the impoverished and starving peoples of the world . |
| 7 | The same can not be said for the Labour party which fought the previous two elections on a programme that the hon. Member for Walsall , South ( Mr. George ) said was disastrous and should have been consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 . |
| 10 | Which is more than can be said for the other engine . |
| 11 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 12 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 13 | There is something , at least , to be said for the old order : ‘ Educational injustice enabled people to preserve their illusions , inequality of opportunity fostered the myth of human equality . ’ |
| 14 | In instrumental terms there is much to be said for the informal approach . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 16 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 17 | By raising and lowering the handle it is possible to follow the contours of the shape , and though this can also be said of a normal chisel , I enjoyed being able to concentrate solely on the chisel edge , as if whittling . |
| 18 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 19 | The calf is supposed to miss its mother as it might be said of a 4-year-old child . |
| 20 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 21 | Again , it 's hard to describe the tones , but imagine this treble pickup as a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul and you 're getting the idea , and the same could probably be said of the front humbucker . |
| 22 | The worst that can be said of the new minister is that he " undoubtedly possessed a definite political programme , but he was too cautious and too indecisive to carry it out " . |
| 23 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 24 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |
| 25 | If the same could be said of the English army ( with this difference , that the nobility was totally committed to Henry V , who had complete control over it ) matters were to change under the rule of the duke of Bedford , acting in the name of the young Henry VI . |
| 26 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 27 | This can not be said of the relational algebra and it is more ‘ user friendly ’ than a straight relational calculus language such as QUEL or SCL . |
| 28 | Much the same can be said of the widespread use of ‘ suggestion schemes ’ , which although not compulsory are so widespread that employees feel obliged to participate in them . |
| 29 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 30 | Thus a given verbal lexeme such as " exist " can be said of an infinite number of different supports : I exist , you exist , this chair exists , etc . |