Example sentences of "[pron] can not be [vb pp] have " in BNC.
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1 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
2 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
3 | Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose . |
4 | Though the novels of the Quartet are linked by common characters and motifs , they can not be said to have a continuous story line . |
5 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
6 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
7 | Though Offa granted land to Woking in Surrey ( CS 275 : S 144 ) , he can not be shown to have had influence here before 784–5 . |
8 | Political parties themselves can not be said to have existed before 1679 . |