Example sentences of "[be] said [prep] that " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen . |
| 8 | ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 9 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that . |
| 11 | There 's something to be said about that . |
| 12 | In Chapters 2 and 3 we saw that the lexical resources of a language influence to a large extent what can be said in that language as well as how it can be said . |