Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staughton J. thought there was ‘ a good deal to be said for the argument of agency ’ . |
| 2 | There is in theory a good deal to be said for the submission of Professor Birks in his Introduction to the Law of Restitution ( 1985 ) , p. 295 , that a payer should be able to recover payments demanded ultra vires by a public authority on the sole ground that retention of such payment would infringe the principle of ‘ no taxation without Parliament ’ enshrined in the Bill of Rights . |
| 3 | However , there is a good deal to be said for joining a society whose background is strange to you , or with whose aims you are not familiar or not in sympathy . |
| 4 | It is submitted that there is a great deal to be said for Browne LJ 's view . |
| 5 | Even so , there is a great deal to be said against timetable motions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is only one other thing to be said about the hedgerows of parliamentary enclosure , and that is when precisely they were made . |
| 11 | The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot . |
| 12 | The first thing to be said about mistake is that it does not usually provide a defence , for liability in conversion is strict : |
| 13 | The first thing to be said in reply is a familiar Popperian theme : a clearly articulated hypothesis , which fails to match the facts in certain specifiable ways , can be a crucial stage in the development of a more satisfactory scientific understanding . |
| 14 | The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it . |
| 15 | ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . ) |
| 16 | Central heating that works , freedom from rising damp , falling gutters , and dry rot : there 's a lot to be said to buying a new house . |
| 17 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 18 | There 's a lot to be said for making the trench in autumn , chucking in household waste all winter and replacing the soil in spring . |
| 19 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a lot to be said for the barn method . |
| 21 | Bernard Dixon thinks there is a lot to be said for following how research results are taken up |
| 22 | There was a lot to be said for knowing your place if you wanted help from Bloomsbury House . |
| 23 | Admittedly there is a lot to be said for the species itself , but it is hard not to fall for I. aquifolium ‘ Bacciflava ’ because the berries are a cheerful shade of yellow . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There 's a lot to be said for the saying ‘ You are what you eat ’ . |
| 26 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 27 | In a less than perfect world it is inevitable that government authorities will sometimes act illegally , and there may be a lot to be said for bringing the ‘ loss distribution ’ insights of modern tort theory to bear on the way we perceive public law compensation . |
| 28 | " There 's a lot to be said for being free , " she panted . |
| 29 | ABBERLEY : A lot to be said for it . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's got quite a lot to be said for it , Bob . |