Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [be] [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement .
2 Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account .
3 There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it .
4 Nevertheless , there may be something to be said for the notion of denunciation .
5 But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances .
6 If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework .
7 The peculiarity of the electoral system was shown again , for the Conservatives had kept the majority of votes-8.66 million against the Labour 8.36 ; and there was something to be said for the view that a drift of mainly middle-class population southward , and the absence of an up-to-date register of the already enfranchised voters , had benefited Labour in the tally of actual seats .
8 I mean , th there is something to be said for the manner towards you is n't there ?
9 Cheap tests will be developed which will allow everyone to be tested for the variants of genes determining psychiatric ailments or psychic qualities outside the doctor 's office .
10 We no longer lock up the mentally deranged , although they were locked up until well into the twentieth century ; certainly we do not allow them to be paraded for the general amusement of our population .
11 She 'd become accustomed to his remarks about her unwanted presence , but she had believed him to be resigned for the time being to having her around .
12 Please remember to send the direct debit form to this office as soon as possible to allow time for it to be processed for the May instalment .
13 I 'll not have my servants smelling like a cesspit , but there 's naught to be done for the present . ’
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