Example sentences of "[noun] can not [be] said " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 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 .
33 But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed .
34 But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed .
35 ( 1.2 , 1.3 ) Our conception of necessary connection can not be said to require any facts other than those stated by these conditionals .
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