Example sentences of "be say [prep] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration .
2 What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic .
3 The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries .
4 First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals .
5 The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot .
6 He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger .
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