Example sentences of "can be said for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than can be said for the lower one , he wrote . |
| 2 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 3 | Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober . |
| 4 | During the night Ham was in fine form , which is more than can be said for the Redstone rocket . |
| 5 | And this is more than can be said for the majority of other books which have exploited the same theme : that of man battling away , amid ignorance and fear , against some novel , lethal , unknown microorganism . |
| 6 | Its one saving grace is that it is water-tight , which is more than can be said for the tonneau cover . |
| 7 | Which is more than can be said for the Osborne creature 's genetic offering ! |
| 8 | The same can be said for the ME-10's overdrive ; again this sound is a matter of taste , although not really mine . |
| 9 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 10 | This is more than can be said for the ever-decreasing Daily Mirror and Daily Express , both in terminal decline . |
| 11 | Which is more than can be said for the thousands of turkeys destined for the Christmas dinner table . |
| 12 | Which is more than can be said for the other engine . |
| 13 | Which , I stress , is more than can be said for the one hit wonders of the '90s , which sound more like nursery rhymes than anything else . |
| 14 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 15 | Which is more than can be said for the Ferrets opposite . |
| 16 | Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others . |
| 17 | The proposal does fit the situation — which is more than can be said for the compromise approach . |
| 18 | which is more than can be said for the products of the human |
| 19 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 20 | which is more than can be said for the Gloucestershire cricket season … the Cheltenham festival is underway and the only ones feasting on runs at the moment are Derbyshire … |