Example sentences of "could be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 2 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 3 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 4 | Seventh Day Adventists were the favoured race skippers — they did n't drink , which was more than could be said for the lighter crews . |
| 5 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 6 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 7 | The same could be said for Christianity . |
| 8 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 9 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 10 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 11 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 12 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 13 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 14 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 15 | Which was more than could be said for Mr Gittings , the decorator . |
| 16 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 17 | They did not seem to mind , each patting her head and calling out that her hair would soon grow , which was more than could be said for the balding bailiffs escorting them . |
| 18 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 19 | Which was more than could be said for Geoff Tulloch . |
| 20 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 21 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 22 | The same could be said for Belgium . |
| 23 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |
| 24 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 25 | Neither of these books , however , could be said to be intent on revenge . |
| 26 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 27 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 28 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 29 | Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former . |
| 30 | Neither she nor Ladislav could be said to be well-off . |