Example sentences of "[modal v] be said [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the radically mentalist view is concerned , there is clearly very little that might be said in its favour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 4 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the same aphorism could be said of our body . |
| 6 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 7 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |
| 8 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 9 | Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest . |
| 10 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 11 | More will be said of its proposals in the next chapter on the houses of the great , but , as a sample of Pugin 's diagnosis , the small print of his satiric illustration , ‘ dedicated , without permission , to THE TRADE ’ , repays examination ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He survived the experience , albeit somewhat bruised , which is better than can be said for his predecessor as a social security minister , Ray Whitney . |
| 14 | Individual existence then seems to require some form of hi sā and the same can be said of our existence as social beings or as members of society . |
| 15 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 16 | It can be said in his favour that the Michael X set seemed very like a fraud and a circus , and that these people had no deep connection with the politics of Trinidad . |
| 17 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |