Example sentences of "be said [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 2 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 3 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 4 | ‘ When it comes to the purity of our water , we have virtually no traces of bacteria in the finished product , which is more than can be said for some other Common Market countries , ’ Dr Derek Miller , assistant director of the soon-to-be-privatised Water Research Centre told the newspaper . |
| 5 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 6 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 7 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 8 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 9 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are sometimes obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 10 | The same can not be said of some other British universities , whose students are obliged to travel considerable distances to observe the raw materials to which their research relates . |
| 11 | And the same may be said of most other merely moral duties . |
| 12 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |