Example sentences of "that [modal v] [adv] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That could not be said of the Cuban missile crisis which could be seen as President Kennedy 's determination to uphold the Monroe doctrine . |
| 2 | That could not be said of " value " in this case which is essentially a matter of opinion . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , that ca n't be said of you ! ’ |
| 5 | That can also be said of Guleghina as Desdemona . |
| 6 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 9 | That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement . |
| 10 | All that can really be said with certainty is that quasi-governmental bodies generally operate in narrower , more specific areas than government departments or local authorities . |
| 11 | So that can hardly be said in itself to constitute an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 12 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |