Example sentences of "not be said [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified . |
| 2 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 5 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 6 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 7 | The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 11 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |