Example sentences of "can be said [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the there is something which I suppose can be said about what you should do , if you 're an N F and a , and a , an a dominant intuitive . |
| 2 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 3 | However , it does not follow from this that there is nothing in an animal 's head , or that nothing useful can be said about it . |
| 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 | She 's a kind girl , though , and at least she rings me now and again which is more than can be said for her brother . |
| 6 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 7 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 8 | Which , I forbear to say out loud , is more than can be said for you , spook . |
| 9 | ‘ More than can be said for you , you big girl 's blouse . ’ |
| 10 | He survived the experience , albeit somewhat bruised , which is better than can be said for his predecessor as a social security minister , Ray Whitney . |
| 11 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 12 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 13 | Individual existence then seems to require some form of hi sā and the same can be said of our existence as social beings or as members of society . |
| 14 | To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc . |
| 15 | It is sometimes supposed , by those who do allow that consciousness is a reality not caught by any of the doctrines we have considered , that none the less nothing enlightening can be said of it . |
| 16 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 17 | It can be said in his favour that the Michael X set seemed very like a fraud and a circus , and that these people had no deep connection with the politics of Trinidad . |
| 18 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |