Example sentences of "all [det] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 4 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 7 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |