Example sentences of "not [be] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 32 | Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive . |
| 33 | English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another . |
| 34 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 35 | WHILE SNES players are in for a treat with Super Mario Kart , sadly the same can not be said for NES owners , with their Christmas Mario offering , Mario and Yoshi — a game which takes the form of a puzzle startlingly similar to the classic Tetris . |
| 36 | ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest . |
| 37 | Her natural expression removes some of the horror of death and , with her floral tribute , looks more like Little Red Riding Hood asleep under the tree ; the same can not be said for the Hoskins child . |
| 38 | Lately in the field of painting , there has been a groundswell of revived interest in ‘ pure abstraction ’ but the same can not be said for sculpture . |
| 39 | But the same can not be said for duties and responsibilities . |
| 40 | The same can not be said for left handers since the mean observed frequency is greater than 50 per cent . |
| 41 | Unfortunately the same can not be said for the George IV Bridge Building . |
| 42 | The hon. Gentleman spoke for himself , which can not be said for the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who is not in his place , the Back-Bench chairman of the Conservative party education committee . |
| 43 | The same can not be said for the Labour party which fought the previous two elections on a programme that the hon. Member for Walsall , South ( Mr. George ) said was disastrous and should have been consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 44 | The same can not be said for Sharp who has continued to play well below anybody else on the team every game . |
| 45 | The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 . |
| 46 | However , I fear the same can not be said for Captain Guy Trentham . ’ |
| 47 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 48 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 49 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 50 | Professor Rhys , of Cardiff Business School , points out that the Essex plant is in an area of low unemployment and that the same could not be said of the other big plants . |
| 51 | The same can not be said of Saatchi & Saatchi , once the darling of the stock market and counting the Conservative Party as one of its clients . |
| 52 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 53 | Erica herself was entirely honest , and worked hard for her causes , but the same could not be said of some of her associates . |
| 54 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 55 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 56 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 57 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 58 | But the same can not be said of twentieth-century Christianity , which is why the type of doubt we are now considering is so prevalent . |
| 59 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 60 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |