Example sentences of "[be] said [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 There was no more to be said on that subject .
2 More will be said on that point later .
3 " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side …
4 Both counsel and judges follow the punctilios of court procedure and conduct , and a few words may be said on these .
5 The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches .
6 The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême .
7 However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less .
8 This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying .
9 The structure of a spoken language determines not who says what to whom , but what can be said at all in a given tongue , irrespective of who the interlocutors are .
10 It should be said at this stage that the case for regulation in any situation is weakened to the extent that the institutions which will themselves be involved are imperfect .
11 Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link .
12 The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections .
13 Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that .
14 ‘ I do n't want to work for you , I 'm employed very nicely working for myself and the name of Morgan is respected already in town , which is more than can be said for that of the Grenfells . ’
15 Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that .
16 ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen .
17 ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’
18 There are improvements that can be made but that 's to be said for all animal husbandry systems , from pets , to guide dogs for the blind , and every other every other type of system .
19 The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel .
20 The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities .
21 There is much to be said for such a theory .
22 There is something to be said for such a view .
23 Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war .
24 There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights .
25 Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals .
26 Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages .
27 There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view .
28 One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream .
29 There is much to be said for this explanation .
30 It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view .
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