Example sentences of "can be said [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He survived the experience , albeit somewhat bruised , which is better than can be said for his predecessor as a social security minister , Ray Whitney . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |