Example sentences of "can not be said " in BNC.

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31 That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering .
32 The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal .
33 That may be so , but while a quarter of the public does not have complete confidence in the police that code can not be said to be working .
34 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 .
35 The same can not be said at Ford , which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday 's 1,180 .
36 ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 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 .
40 If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin .
41 At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders .
42 However , it can not be said that the laws-of-war approach has resulted in clear and unambiguous agreement either among writers or among countries as to the precise restrictions to be placed on nuclear weapons use .
43 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 .
44 Someone who calls out ‘ Cooee ’ can not be said to be saying something that is true or false .
45 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 .
46 With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment .
47 This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves .
48 Unfortunately , this can not be said of the licence fee .
49 Unfortunately , while his powers of mental control are impressive , this can not be said of his ability to control his physical body .
50 But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ?
51 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 .
52 Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such .
53 It can not be said often enough that these are not the people at the top of the organization , but those at the bottom .
54 In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect .
55 Since such orders are not the product of a directing intelligence they can not be said to have a particular purpose .
56 It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now .
57 I must repeat , it is not the purpose of ‘ Documenta ’ to choose representatives from different countries : the Italian artists involved certainly can not be said to represent Italy .
58 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 .
59 Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period .
60 But the same can not be said for duties and responsibilities .
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