Example sentences of "to be say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no more to be said on that subject . |
| 2 | " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side … |
| 3 | The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches . |
| 4 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 5 | There are improvements that can be made but that 's to be said for all animal husbandry systems , from pets , to guide dogs for the blind , and every other every other type of system . |
| 6 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 7 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen . |
| 9 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 10 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 11 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 12 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 13 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 14 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 15 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 16 | Some people like to plan their trips in meticulous detail , but there 's a lot to be said for this ‘ open-book ’ approach . |
| 17 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 18 | I think there 's a lot to be said for arranged marriages , actually . ’ |
| 19 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 20 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 21 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 22 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that . |
| 24 | There 's something to be said about that . |
| 25 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |
| 26 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 27 | Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation . |
| 28 | But there is still more to be said about linguistic norms . |
| 29 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |