Example sentences of "can [adv] be say " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
| 32 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Just what the agreement struck this week between Mikhail Gorbachev , the Soviet president , Boris Yeltsin , the Russian one , and eight other republican leaders will in the end amount to can not be said . |
| 35 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 36 | This test is ambiguous as to whether or not D must have thought about whether the woman is consenting , but there are those who argue that one can not be said ‘ not to care less ’ about something unless one has considered it . |
| 37 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 38 | And , if she has a sister who is going out of her mind , I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile , I can not be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |
| 41 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 42 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 44 | 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 ’ . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 47 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 50 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 51 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |
| 60 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |