Example sentences of "[modal v] be said for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same might be said for the mix of sexuality and violence in Blue Velvet . |
| 2 | As much might be said for members of her cabinet . |
| 3 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 6 | Seventh Day Adventists were the favoured race skippers — they did n't drink , which was more than could be said for the lighter crews . |
| 7 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 8 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 9 | The same could be said for Christianity . |
| 10 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 11 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 12 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 13 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 14 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 15 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 16 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 17 | Which was more than could be said for Mr Gittings , the decorator . |
| 18 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 19 | They did not seem to mind , each patting her head and calling out that her hair would soon grow , which was more than could be said for the balding bailiffs escorting them . |
| 20 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 21 | Which was more than could be said for Geoff Tulloch . |
| 22 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 23 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 24 | The same could be said for Belgium . |
| 25 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |
| 26 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 27 | ( vi ) The same may be said for a passage of Paul . |
| 28 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 29 | If remembering that the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus keeps doctrinal formulation authentic , the same may be said for experience . |
| 30 | 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 . |