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

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1 So something more must be said about beliefs , expectations , hopes , and so on , than that they are not extended , if they are adequately to be distinguished from these other non-extended phenomena .
2 As much might be said for members of her cabinet .
3 Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas .
4 The same may be said about loans at call to members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) .
5 That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect .
6 But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example .
7 There seems to be little that can be said about things which are familiar to writer and reader alike .
8 So little archaeological research has been conducted on the ‘ foreign ’ goods from excavations on town sites goods like querns , hones , and pottery — that little can be said for activities at markets and fairs in the Middle
9 Whether the same can be said for sessions with the shrink , I 'm not sure .
10 And the same can be said of structures .
11 That is more than can be said of Rangers ' captain , Gough , and the rest .
12 The same can be said of stallions , though most people do n't have the facilities to keep them .
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