Example sentences of "to be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the millions of words that have been written and spoken on the subject of ‘ 1992 ’ , there still appears to be much more to be said on the subject . |
| 2 | A memorandum by Thomas Cromwell in 1533 of matters to be discussed with the King includes things to be said on the departure of the Bavarian ambassador , the interrogation of a friar named Reysbye , the treatment of certain other friars who had been in contact with Rome , the folding of cloth in the north of England , the offer made to the King by the executors of Lord Dacre of the South in an important test case , and the affairs of a reputed idiot named Ralph Francis . |
| 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 | Difficult though it would undoubtedly be for him I do not understand it to be said on his behalf that it would be impossible . |
| 5 | There was no more to be said on that subject . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Central heating that works , freedom from rising damp , falling gutters , and dry rot : there 's a lot to be said to buying a new house . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure , but the best thing is if I know everything , then I can judge how much has to be said to Mother Clare . ’ |
| 11 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 12 | Instead , conjunction signals the way the writer wants the reader to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before . |
| 13 | I think that ought to be said to staff . |
| 14 | Whether to mystify me once more or because there was no more to be said to a stranger , I could n't tell . |
| 15 | I think perhaps what 's going to be said to you to the rest of the day erm will actually bring out the key points tha that Hughie was trying , trying to make . |
| 16 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 17 | Donald Davie , in a dispirited essay called ‘ Criticism and the Academy ’ , ruefully acknowledges that the belletrist criticism of men of letters such as Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly ( unequal figures , these , one has to remark ) might have more to be said for it than he , as a lifelong academic , would be happy to acknowledge : |
| 18 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 19 | Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable . |
| 20 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 21 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 22 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 23 | There 's a lot to be said for making the trench in autumn , chucking in household waste all winter and replacing the soil in spring . |
| 24 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 25 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 26 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 27 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 28 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 29 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 30 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |