Example sentences of "that can [adv] be said [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That can also be said of Guleghina as Desdemona .
2 Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 So that can hardly be said in itself to constitute an intolerable situation . ’
8 But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’
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