Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] said for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same might be said for the mix of sexuality and violence in Blue Velvet . |
| 2 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 3 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 4 | Seventh Day Adventists were the favoured race skippers — they did n't drink , which was more than could be said for the lighter crews . |
| 5 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 6 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 7 | They did not seem to mind , each patting her head and calling out that her hair would soon grow , which was more than could be said for the balding bailiffs escorting them . |
| 8 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 9 | More than can be said for the lower one , he wrote . |
| 10 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 11 | Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober . |
| 12 | During the night Ham was in fine form , which is more than can be said for the Redstone rocket . |
| 13 | And this is more than can be said for the majority of other books which have exploited the same theme : that of man battling away , amid ignorance and fear , against some novel , lethal , unknown microorganism . |
| 14 | Its one saving grace is that it is water-tight , which is more than can be said for the tonneau cover . |
| 15 | Which is more than can be said for the Osborne creature 's genetic offering ! |
| 16 | The same can be said for the ME-10's overdrive ; again this sound is a matter of taste , although not really mine . |
| 17 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 18 | This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express , both in terminal decline . |
| 19 | Which is more than can be said for the thousands of turkeys destined for the Christmas dinner table . |
| 20 | Which is more than can be said for the other engine . |
| 21 | Which , I stress , is more than can be said for the one hit wonders of the '90s , which sound more like nursery rhymes than anything else . |
| 22 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 23 | Which is more than can be said for the Ferrets opposite . |
| 24 | Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others . |
| 25 | The proposal does fit the situation — which is more than can be said for the compromise approach . |
| 26 | which is more than can be said for the products of the human |
| 27 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 28 | which is more than can be said for the Gloucestershire cricket season … the Cheltenham festival is underway and the only ones feasting on runs at the moment are Derbyshire … |