Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [be] said for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests . |
| 2 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 3 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 4 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 5 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 6 | The best that can be said for Manne 's argument is that as the risks of insider dealing increase , ‘ not trading ’ trading may become more popular . |
| 7 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 8 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |