Example sentences of "be say for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than can be said for the lower one , he wrote . |
| 2 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 5 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 6 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 9 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 10 | Simon thought it sensible and practical ‘ which is more than can be said for most of their gimmicks , but ’ he warned her , ‘ if they like it they 'll take it over as their own . |
| 11 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 12 | There 's a lot to be said for making the trench in autumn , chucking in household waste all winter and replacing the soil in spring . |
| 13 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 17 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 18 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 19 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 20 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 21 | ‘ When it comes to the purity of our water , we have virtually no traces of bacteria in the finished product , which is more than can be said for some other Common Market countries , ’ Dr Derek Miller , assistant director of the soon-to-be-privatised Water Research Centre told the newspaper . |
| 22 | Seventh Day Adventists were the favoured race skippers — they did n't drink , which was more than could be said for the lighter crews . |
| 23 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 24 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is nothing to be said for propounding the philosophy of history if you do not know the date of the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 29 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a lot to be said for the barn method . |