Example sentences of "be say for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 2 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 3 | The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Renaissance pulpit and the extremely grand organ above the west door have much to be said for them , but the overall effect of the interior is to drive you straight outside again to the restorative severity of tower , porch and portal . |
| 6 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 7 | Which , I forbear to say out loud , is more than can be said for you , spook . |
| 8 | ‘ More than can be said for you , you big girl 's blouse . ’ |
| 9 | Donald Davie , in a dispirited essay called ‘ Criticism and the Academy ’ , ruefully acknowledges that the belletrist criticism of men of letters such as Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly ( unequal figures , these , one has to remark ) might have more to be said for it than he , as a lifelong academic , would be happy to acknowledge : |
| 10 | It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it . |
| 11 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 12 | This approach has much to be said for it , and certainly makes for equal treatment for shareholders , creditors and third parties , and equal terms in these respects for establishment in each member state . |
| 13 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 14 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 15 | The ‘ case-work ’ approach had much to be said for it in that it entailed a serious attempt to analyse the nature of the problem confronting the individual or family and to achieve a lasting solution without removing the clients from their familiar environment . |
| 16 | But Arudy has little to be said for it ; it is a small , mildly industrial town , best known for marking the spot where the glacier that once ground its way down the Ossau valley built a wall of debris , so causing the present-day Gave to make an abrupt swerve to westward . |
| 17 | However , where funds can be round , the award of bursaries for education and music tuition has much to be said for it . |
| 18 | ABBERLEY : A lot to be said for it . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's got quite a lot to be said for it , Bob . |
| 20 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it . |
| 22 | So although Frazer was doing a kind of anthropology that was later to be rather dis despised , it had something to be said for it . |
| 23 | What you 're not likely to see is the peculiarities of , of the person erm showing themselves and if they do show too much , the likelihood is that the rest of the group will start to erm freeze out that individual , regardless because they 're no longer corresponding to the to the ideals of the group and er so consequently , erm I personally have no time for group psychoanalysis and I would never recommend it to anybody , although of course , for non-analytic things like losing weight or in stopping smoking or drinking , there 's a lot to be said for it , but one should n't confuse that kind of group reinforcement with erm analysis , cos analysis as we 've seen is quite different . |
| 24 | So , but there is something to be said for it I 'm certainly not running it down , what I am saying is you ca n't . |
| 25 | It 's her first full-scale novel , and I think there 's a lot to be said for it . |