Example sentences of "need [prep] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |
| 2 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |
| 3 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 4 | The magazine Field and Stream published this delightfully tongue-in-cheek review which says all that needs to be said about innocence and incorruptibility : |
| 5 | More needs to be said about our conviction , but here we have something . |
| 6 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 7 | But there is one more thing at least that needs to be said about it . |
| 8 | If it were possible to compile a complete list of the basic propositions needed to say everything that essentially needs to be said about the world , existential propositions would not be among them . |
| 9 | Before we look at the separate groups and the new pope 's treatment of them , more needs to be said about poverty and preaching . |
| 10 | One paragraph on rainforest conservation , for example , could be quoted more widely — it says all that needs to be said in 15 eloquent lines . |
| 11 | Chair , I I think what needs to be said in this debate is something positive about the work that has come out of particularly Highfields , er and indeed to some extent Moat , in the past . |
| 12 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 13 | It said all that needed to be said in a clear enough manner . |
| 14 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 15 | It is these two rituals which will be the main focus of this essay , but before turning to their specific analysis a few more words need to be said about the general blood context and the male-female hierarchy at work within it . |