Example sentences of "be said for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something similar could have been said for Davout . |
| 2 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 3 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 4 | More than can be said for the lower one , he wrote . |
| 5 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 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 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 10 | Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable . |
| 11 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 12 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 13 | Simon thought it sensible and practical ‘ which is more than can be said for most of their gimmicks , but ’ he warned her , ‘ if they like it they 'll take it over as their own . |
| 14 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 17 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 18 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 19 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 20 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 21 | If you have to borrow , there is everything to be said for doing it cheaply . |
| 22 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 23 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 24 | ‘ When it comes to the purity of our water , we have virtually no traces of bacteria in the finished product , which is more than can be said for some other Common Market countries , ’ Dr Derek Miller , assistant director of the soon-to-be-privatised Water Research Centre told the newspaper . |
| 25 | Seventh Day Adventists were the favoured race skippers — they did n't drink , which was more than could be said for the lighter crews . |
| 26 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 27 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 28 | There is something , at least , to be said for the old order : ‘ Educational injustice enabled people to preserve their illusions , inequality of opportunity fostered the myth of human equality . ’ |
| 29 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 30 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |