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

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1 That conception , for all the problems it raises , can not reasonably be said to be of the same character .
2 The same can not yet be said about the idea of regression .
3 In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 .
4 I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising .
5 The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable .
6 A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length .
7 The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete .
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