Example sentences of "[adj] can [be] said for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the same can be said for sessions with the shrink , I 'm not sure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The same can be said for the ME-10's overdrive ; again this sound is a matter of taste , although not really mine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The same can be said for working-class , black and other oppressed groups . |
| 6 | Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Full of energy and compulsion , the same can be said for ‘ Dodgen ’ where the colour is all part of the motion . |
| 9 | Games are an integral part of any school 's curriculum and the same can be said for New College , but all the pupils are blind or have got very little sight . |
| 10 | The same can be said for President Rafsanjani , Iran 's moderate leader who remained determined to fend off the radicals and to end Iran 's isolations . |
| 11 | So little archaeological research has been conducted on the ‘ foreign ’ goods from excavations on town sites goods like querns , hones , and pottery — that little can be said for activities at markets and fairs in the Middle |
| 12 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |