Example sentences of "to be said in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 2 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 3 | This was supposed to be said in the tone of one dealing with news of some immense natural disaster . |
| 4 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 5 | It said all that needed to be said in a clear enough manner . |
| 6 | It used to be said in World War Two that careless talk cost lives . |
| 7 | With mature fish displaying as much colour as juveniles , and adult sizes remaining at manageable levels for most marine aquariums , there is so much to be said in their favour . |
| 8 | The first thing to be said in reply is a familiar Popperian theme : a clearly articulated hypothesis , which fails to match the facts in certain specifiable ways , can be a crucial stage in the development of a more satisfactory scientific understanding . |
| 9 | Moore himself said later that there was little to be said in favour of this account . |
| 10 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 11 | In conclusion , my Lords , it seems to me that , unless the procedure adopted by the moving party is ill suited to dispose of the question at issue , there is much to be said in favour of the proposition that a court having jurisdiction ought to let a case be heard rather than entertain a debate concerning the form of the proceedings . |
| 12 | The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it . |
| 13 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 14 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 15 | A periodical reunion of the deaf of Great Britain and Ireland should always occur , and there is everything to be said in its favour . |
| 16 | One paragraph on rainforest conservation , for example , could be quoted more widely — it says all that needs to be said in 15 eloquent lines . |
| 17 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 18 | At the moment their relationship was a weekend one , but both of them occasionally thought that the idea of marriage still had something to be said in its favour . |
| 19 | Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality . |
| 20 | Chairman , if I could just er , erm , some words that are n't included in this pa paper , I understand that the Deregulation Bill is published on the eighteenth erm , and presented to Parliament for the first reading , erm , it 's still far from clear what 's going to be said in it , but erm , it 's still widely expected that in fact , on major contentious issues will in fact be the suggestion that sections of Acts of Parliament will , could be revealed by ministerial order rather than go through the parliamentary process again . |
| 21 | Had the matter been res integra , there is much to be said in favour of Judge Davies QC 's reasoning . |
| 22 | Chair , I I think what needs to be said in this debate is something positive about the work that has come out of particularly Highfields , er and indeed to some extent Moat , in the past . |