Example sentences of "can be said [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 5 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 6 | Which , I forbear to say out loud , is more than can be said for you , spook . |
| 7 | ‘ More than can be said for you , you big girl 's blouse . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |