Example sentences of "[not/n't] be said [prep] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel .
33 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 .
34 ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest .
35 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 .
36 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 .
37 But the same can not be said for duties and responsibilities .
38 The same can not be said for left handers since the mean observed frequency is greater than 50 per cent .
39 Unfortunately the same can not be said for the George IV Bridge Building .
40 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 .
41 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 .
42 The same can not be said for Sharp who has continued to play well below anybody else on the team every game .
43 The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 .
44 However , I fear the same can not be said for Captain Guy Trentham . ’
45 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 .
46 Obviously , the same can not be said of Pound .
47 This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect .
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine .
51 Erica herself was entirely honest , and worked hard for her causes , but the same could not be said of some of her associates .
52 Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) .
53 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 .
54 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 .
55 Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often .
56 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 .
57 The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately .
58 The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal .
59 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 .
60 The Government 's policy on television in mainland Tanzania could be seen as anti-elitist ; the same could not be said of its policy on the press .
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