Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [adv] [be] say [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , this particular entry , which is itself a text , coheres within itself , but its component elements can not be said to relate , or cohere , to the previous or following entries , except within the context of the whole handbook . |
| 2 | In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction . |
| 3 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 4 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |
| 5 | Very few English towns can really be said to have ‘ developed ’ from villages . |
| 6 | Each of those ballets can also be said to have dimension and linear patterns which can be roughly described as follows : Symphonic Variations Lines are widely structured , flowing and straight rather than rounded , with no hard edges . |
| 7 | So public employees can not be said to have less of an incentive to be efficient or a greater incentive to pursue non-pecuniary rewards . |
| 8 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 9 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 10 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 11 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |