Example sentences of "not be said " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel .
33 ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’
34 The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ .
35 They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct .
36 Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population .
37 The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it .
38 Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often .
39 While bringing many qualities to his new post , Mr Snyder could not be said to possess great insight into the subject — in fact he did n't possess any sight at all ; the new chairman was registered as blind .
40 A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another .
41 The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon .
42 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 .
43 The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately .
44 That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering .
45 Let it not be said that the government rushes into legislation without consultation .
46 Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it .
47 The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal .
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 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 .
51 ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest .
52 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 .
53 They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law .
54 When the last payment was made on 12 February 1990 , it could not be said that the accountants would necessarily be benefited by a surplus of £2,310 to set against fees for work done earlier but unpaid .
55 The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future .
56 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 .
57 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 .
58 Mrs Frizzell eased herself — it could not be said that she exactly pushed — through the crowd so that she was next to Mrs Hnatiuk , while Maxie stopped to talk to clients .
59 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 .
60 The senior staff of the TANU press felt that , while they might not always be in agreement with everything the Government and its various ministries did or said , they were committed to its goals ; the same , they believed , could not be said of the Standard .
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