Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , that ca n't be said of you ! ’ |
| 3 | Fortunately , the same ca n't be said of ‘ The Caterpillar ’ . |
| 4 | For want of about £2 million , the same ca n't be said of the Vulcan Bomber . |
| 5 | WELL , YOU CAN SAY ONE thing for John Major : after ducking the date on two occasions when he might have won , he ca n't be accused of lacking courage in calling a general election when his party is at best level-pegging with Labour and , possibly , is even behind in the polls . |
| 6 | The IRA may have been defeated at the ballot box , but it ca n't be accused of not trying . |
| 7 | Spreadsheet vendors ca n't be accused of not having their fingers on the pulse of their market . |
| 8 | You ca n't be accused of whingeing and complaining when you make the other person aware that you can see the positive in the situation too . |
| 9 | Also it 's out of the way , something we prefer so we ca n't be accused of over-running crags with school parties . ’ |
| 10 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 11 | The selectors certainly ca n't be accused of not spreading their nets far and wide , Division III being represented by the Haddington winger , John Kerr , and Division II by Steven Ferguson ( Peebles ) and the Stewart's-Melville pair , Kenny Milligan and Douglas Wyllie . |
| 12 | The selectors certainly ca n't be accused of not spreading their nets far and wide , Division III being represented by Haddington winger John Kerr , and Division II by Steven Ferguson ( Peebles ) and the Stewart's-Melville pair , Kenny Milligan and Douglas Wyllie . |
| 13 | But that does n't mean to say that I ca n't be absolved of that . |
| 14 | It 's a tragedy that more commercial use can not be made of the waterways . |
| 15 | He can not be rid of the yearnings , |
| 16 | And so the whole memory comes back and er the individual just can not be rid of it . |
| 17 | That this can not be assumed of language , which appears to serve just such a purpose , has been illustrated very clearly by the linguist Lehrer in an analysis of the language used in the description of wines . |
| 18 | Under experimental conditions , old people in NHS nursing homes may do at least as well as those in traditional geriatric wards , but the same can not be assumed of units removed from the traditions and surveillance of a health or social services hierarchy . |
| 19 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound . |
| 22 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 28 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
| 29 | Some commentators have pointed out that , as can not be said of the Cadbury Committee 's report on the financial aspects of corporate governance , much legislation would be needed to implement the Green Paper 's proposals . |
| 30 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |