Example sentences of "[adj] can [be] said [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And what a wonderful place , what more can be said about the bar ?
2 More can be said about the justification , found by both Blumler et al .
3 If virtually nothing is known of the town defences , only a little more can be said about the streets .
4 Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober .
5 The same can be said for the ME-10's overdrive ; again this sound is a matter of taste , although not really mine .
6 The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters .
7 Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others .
8 Precisely the same can be said of the many divine beings reverenced from within Hindu tradition .
9 The same can be said of the next dog of great influence : Ch.
10 The photos are of variable quality , but often interesting ; the same can be said of the colour plates , which show an extraordinary range of service-specific camouflage clothing and insignia , but are sometimes rather stylised in appearance .
11 This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood .
12 Much the same can be said of the third issue , of free trade vs protectionism .
13 The same can be said of the junior ministers who finally wrecked the government in 1922 ; many of these would have been cabinet ministers in a party government .
14 Much the same can be said of the widespread use of ‘ suggestion schemes ’ , which although not compulsory are so widespread that employees feel obliged to participate in them .
15 The same can be said of the gold treasures thrown into the lagoon of Guatavita , Colombia , in the course of ceremonies to mark the appointment of successive rulers .
16 The same can be said of the harvesting or slaughtering process itself .
17 The same can be said of the activity and products of educational research .
18 This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley .
19 This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood .
20 Much the same can be said of the mosaics from Withington and Newton St. Loe , although here other contrasts are also conspicuous .
21 The same can be said of the United States Constitution , but in Britain there is no body that stands in a position analogous to that of the United States Supreme Court .
22 The same can be said about the goal of family-oriented intervention and the provision of after care .
23 The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century .
24 All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say .
25 There is much that can be said about the advantages of such a strategy , which is flexible and which can penetrate secular buildings with the salt of the gospel touching the lives of many who otherwise have no contact with the church .
26 So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another .
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