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

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1 There is much to be said for such a theory .
2 There is something to be said for such a view .
3 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 .
4 There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights .
5 This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life .
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