Example sentences of "[be] said for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 2 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 3 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen . |
| 7 | ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 10 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 11 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 12 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 13 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 14 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 15 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 18 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 19 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 24 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 25 | Some people like to plan their trips in meticulous detail , but there 's a lot to be said for this ‘ open-book ’ approach . |
| 26 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 29 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 30 | Though he almost came a cropper on one occasion — United had just squandered a chance to cancel out the first-half lead Ian Baird had given Hearts — his footwork was pretty good , which is more than can be said for those on the pitch itself . |