Example sentences of "be said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no more to be said on that subject . |
| 2 | More will be said on that point later . |
| 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 | Both counsel and judges follow the punctilios of court procedure and conduct , and a few words may be said on these . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 7 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 8 | It can already be said with virtual certainty that lamb will never be as cheap again . |
| 9 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 10 | However , it could not be said with any certainty that because Mr. Wright had backed out , the dealer had sold one car less . |
| 11 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 12 | The structure of a spoken language determines not who says what to whom , but what can be said at all in a given tongue , irrespective of who the interlocutors are . |
| 13 | It should be said at this stage that the case for regulation in any situation is weakened to the extent that the institutions which will themselves be involved are imperfect . |
| 14 | Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen . |
| 22 | ‘ More than can be said for that bastard Trentham . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 28 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 29 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 30 | There is something to be said for such a view . |