Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Staughton J. thought there was ‘ a good deal to be said for the argument of agency ’ .
2 There is in theory a good deal to be said for the submission of Professor Birks in his Introduction to the Law of Restitution ( 1985 ) , p. 295 , that a payer should be able to recover payments demanded ultra vires by a public authority on the sole ground that retention of such payment would infringe the principle of ‘ no taxation without Parliament ’ enshrined in the Bill of Rights .
3 However , there is a good deal to be said for joining a society whose background is strange to you , or with whose aims you are not familiar or not in sympathy .
4 It is submitted that there is a great deal to be said for Browne LJ 's view .
5 Even so , there is a great deal to be said against timetable motions .
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 A memorandum by Thomas Cromwell in 1533 of matters to be discussed with the King includes things to be said on the departure of the Bavarian ambassador , the interrogation of a friar named Reysbye , the treatment of certain other friars who had been in contact with Rome , the folding of cloth in the north of England , the offer made to the King by the executors of Lord Dacre of the South in an important test case , and the affairs of a reputed idiot named Ralph Francis .
8 Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged .
9 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 .
10 One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set .
11 The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner !
12 First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals .
13 There is only one other thing to be said about the hedgerows of parliamentary enclosure , and that is when precisely they were made .
14 The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot .
15 The first thing to be said about mistake is that it does not usually provide a defence , for liability in conversion is strict :
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . )
19 Central heating that works , freedom from rising damp , falling gutters , and dry rot : there 's a lot to be said to buying a new house .
20 There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration .
21 There 's a lot to be said for making the trench in autumn , chucking in household waste all winter and replacing the soil in spring .
22 There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view .
23 ‘ There 's a lot to be said for the barn method .
24 Bernard Dixon thinks there is a lot to be said for following how research results are taken up
25 There was a lot to be said for knowing your place if you wanted help from Bloomsbury House .
26 Admittedly there is a lot to be said for the species itself , but it is hard not to fall for I. aquifolium ‘ Bacciflava ’ because the berries are a cheerful shade of yellow .
27 Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation .
28 There 's a lot to be said for the saying ‘ You are what you eat ’ .
29 There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions .
30 In a less than perfect world it is inevitable that government authorities will sometimes act illegally , and there may be a lot to be said for bringing the ‘ loss distribution ’ insights of modern tort theory to bear on the way we perceive public law compensation .
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