Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] say " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 35 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The same can not be said of ozone , if used indiscriminately . |
| 41 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 42 | The same can not be said of the ruck/maul proposal . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | ‘ But the same can not be said for the rest . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | If Marx 's humanitarianism contains a certain ambiguity , the same can not be said of Lenin . |
| 51 | At 29 he 's got everything , which can not be said of the other international contenders . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Someone who calls out ‘ Cooee ’ can not be said to be saying something that is true or false . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Unfortunately , this can not be said of the licence fee . |
| 59 | Unfortunately , while his powers of mental control are impressive , this can not be said of his ability to control his physical body . |
| 60 | 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 ? |