Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [be] said for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much might be said for members of her cabinet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whether that could be said for Evan Dando is more difficult . |
| 6 | ( vi ) The same may be said for a passage of Paul . |
| 7 | The same may be said for Confucianism , which has dominated Chinese philosophical thinking from times BOO years before the birth of Christ . |
| 8 | If remembering that the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus keeps doctrinal formulation authentic , the same may be said for experience . |
| 9 | The same might be said for the mix of sexuality and violence in Blue Velvet . |
| 10 | Seven months on , how I wish the same could be said for the rest . |
| 11 | If the perceptions of Paisley 's critics are revealing of their underlying attitudes , the same could be said for the perceptions of his supporters . |
| 12 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 13 | The same could be said for Christianity . |
| 14 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 15 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 16 | Would that the same could be said for another competition that takes place at this time of the year — England 's County Championship finals . |
| 17 | The same could be said for Bailey 's life : nothing is as it appears . |
| 18 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 19 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 20 | The same could be said for many a flat in many English provincial cities . |
| 21 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 22 | The same could be said for Belgium . |
| 23 | Whether the same can be said for sessions with the shrink , I 'm not sure . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The same can be said for the ME-10's overdrive ; again this sound is a matter of taste , although not really mine . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 28 | Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others . |
| 29 | Much the same can be said for Lichtenstein 's comic-strip pop art or Alex Cox 's use of Lichtenstein-type devices in his film Repo Man . |
| 30 | Full of energy and compulsion , the same can be said for ‘ Dodgen ’ where the colour is all part of the motion . |