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 . |