Example sentences of "be said [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficult though it would undoubtedly be for him I do not understand it to be said on his behalf that it would be impossible . |
| 2 | Instead , conjunction signals the way the writer wants the reader to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before . |
| 3 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |
| 4 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Built as a rival to the parish church at Lavenham , Long Melford was financed by local parishioners , some of whose names were carved in stone around the clerestory in an inscription which called for prayers to be said for their souls . |
| 7 | When foreign-language teachers are nowadays being encouraged to ‘ play the role of a sympathetic native speaker ’ , there must be something to be said for their actually being ‘ sympathetic native speakers ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 10 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 11 | She 's a kind girl , though , and at least she rings me now and again which is more than can be said for her brother . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 14 | The Renaissance pulpit and the extremely grand organ above the west door have much to be said for them , but the overall effect of the interior is to drive you straight outside again to the restorative severity of tower , porch and portal . |
| 15 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 16 | Which , I forbear to say out loud , is more than can be said for you , spook . |
| 17 | ‘ More than can be said for you , you big girl 's blouse . ’ |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 20 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 21 | This approach has much to be said for it , and certainly makes for equal treatment for shareholders , creditors and third parties , and equal terms in these respects for establishment in each member state . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 24 | The ‘ case-work ’ approach had much to be said for it in that it entailed a serious attempt to analyse the nature of the problem confronting the individual or family and to achieve a lasting solution without removing the clients from their familiar environment . |
| 25 | But Arudy has little to be said for it ; it is a small , mildly industrial town , best known for marking the spot where the glacier that once ground its way down the Ossau valley built a wall of debris , so causing the present-day Gave to make an abrupt swerve to westward . |
| 26 | However , where funds can be round , the award of bursaries for education and music tuition has much to be said for it . |
| 27 | ABBERLEY : A lot to be said for it . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's got quite a lot to be said for it , Bob . |
| 29 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |