Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 2 | There 's a lot to be said for Wilko 's tough attitude too . |
| 3 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is submitted that there is a great deal to be said for Browne LJ 's view . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation . |
| 12 | A COUNCIL tax ranging from £297 to £900 is set to be fixed for householders in Fife . |
| 13 | On the other hand , foreign languages were clearly expected to be taught for communication in the first place . |
| 14 | Ministers would have to be prepared for legislation to be defeated , time and again , without feeling the need for the issue to be made one of confidence — on which the government would feel it necessary to force an election . |
| 15 | Integrated Development Programmes ( IDPs ) are to be prepared for areas where agricultural development depends on simultaneous investment in infrastructure and other sectors . |
| 16 | A paper was to be prepared for publication with the particulars of treatment and the results . |
| 17 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 18 | An appropriate insert is to be prepared for inclusion in pay slips for all Regional employees bearing suitable information on road safety and in particular seat belt wearing . |
| 19 | Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter . |
| 20 | He would have to be prepared for Godolphin 's wrath . |
| 21 | If Third World countries are to tighten their belts , then their governments have to be prepared for trouble , because starving people get desperate . |
| 22 | He was bound in the sum of £100 and allowed 24 months , from the time of starting , at the end of which all ore lying upon the ground was to be prepared for market , paying duty of one-twelfth part or " Dish " of all the merchantable ore . |
| 23 | The Ness Co-operative have moved , in nine months , from an attitude of , ‘ They should do it ’ to a conviction of , ‘ We must do it ourselves ’ , and have established a vegetable co-operative , bought a combine harvester , leased an unused schoolhouse garden which they will sponsor as a Job Creation Scheme to be prepared for use as a nursery and demonstration area for horticulture , and intend leasing an entire croft belonging to a member of the Community Association . |
| 24 | To remedy the worst excesses of lack of scholarship and poor teaching the Queen , following earlier examples , ordered Books of Homilies to be prepared for use in all parish churches . |
| 25 | PI assists the QA process by permitting a package to be submitted for approval , by allowing a package to be prepared for approval , and also by granting/denying approval to a package . |
| 26 | On the return journey , the Thornton Heath branch was covered and at Telford Avenue depôt , the party changed to another car and No. 1 had completed its last public journey in London , to be prepared for sale to Leeds . |
| 27 | She was sent to him to be prepared for confirmation . |
| 28 | Anthony lost a lot of blood and is likely to be scarred for life after injuries to his face , arm and leg and foot . |
| 29 | Don Goodman , later to be transferred for £1 million to Sunderland , netted the only goal . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |