Example sentences of "[be] [det] [prep] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 2 | But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it . |
| 3 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 4 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 5 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is much to be said for interpreting a modality such as ‘ when he reaches the age of sixteen ’ as a condition rather than a term . |
| 9 | Dixon J ( one of the most powerful judges to have graced the Australian bench ) , however , regarded s.4 bluntly as ‘ a restriction upon British parliamentary supremacy of the law ’ , ( ‘ The Law and the Constitution ’ , ( 1935 ) 51 LQR 611 ) , and there is much to be said for preferring his view . |
| 10 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 11 | When there is disagreement , there is much to be said for retreating specifically to consider the model rather than the problem . |
| 12 | The states which made it up can be classified in several ways , but there is much to be said for distinguishing European states which had already existed in 1815 from those which had come into existence later . |
| 13 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 14 | In instrumental terms there is much to be said for the informal approach . |
| 15 | Unless , therefore , we decide to resist the proposal , however strong may be its supporters in the House of Commons , there is much to be said for taking the initiative and inserting in the Bill , as introduced , a clause for the abolition of the death penalty . |
| 16 | There is much to be said for continuing the practice of reading to children right through the later primary years , letting them hear the cadences of book language and , where possible , letting them follow the text as well . |
| 17 | To go back a little , there is much to be said for spending six months to a year ( a small-minded regulation forbids any longer time ) in a solicitor 's office before pupillage . |
| 18 | From the point of view of policy , therefore , there is much to be said for the view that no independent tort is committed when all that is threatened , in the two-party situation , is a breach of contract , though there is not very much authority for such a proposition . |
| 19 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 20 | There is much to be said for an extension of the mental element in rape to cover this type of case , and it may be that this was the Committee 's intention . |
| 21 | First of all , there is much to be said for simplicity which , in Canada and New South Wales , has been achieved in part by including within the scale a far narrower range of former offences than is the case in Michigan . |
| 22 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 23 | There is much to be said for moving away from total government ownership . |
| 24 | The UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , however , said on Dec. 17 after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers [ see pp. 37931 ] that " I do n't think there is much to be said for an entirely separate meeting " . |
| 25 | There is much to be said for the inclusion of a procedure for suspending with immediate effect a partner whose conduct has given ground for expulsion ( Clause 19.02 ) when the surrounding circumstances may not immediately indicate whether it would be in the interests of the firm that the power to expel should in fact be exercised . |
| 26 | However , unless the rent review is to be conducted in accordance with a prescribed timetable , there is much to be said for dispensing with notices , and removing a fertile source of potential dispute . |
| 27 | With respect , there is much to be said for the minority view expressed by Lord Pearce which is based upon certainty in transactions and would not expose the parties to shifts in scientific knowledge right up to the time of trial . |
| 28 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 29 | In conclusion , my Lords , it seems to me that , unless the procedure adopted by the moving party is ill suited to dispose of the question at issue , there is much to be said in favour of the proposition that a court having jurisdiction ought to let a case be heard rather than entertain a debate concerning the form of the proceedings . |
| 30 | Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality . |