Example sentences of "be say for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 2 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 3 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If remembering that the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus keeps doctrinal formulation authentic , the same may be said for experience . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 11 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 12 | The same could be said for Christianity . |
| 13 | Lately in the field of painting , there has been a groundswell of revived interest in ‘ pure abstraction ’ but the same can not be said for sculpture . |
| 14 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |